Myanmar charges three Muslims for holding Ramadan prayers

Three Muslims have been indicted by Myanmar’s authorities for holding Ramadan prayers in the street where the local school they used to worship in for decades was closed by a nationalist mob.

 

Three Muslims have been indicted by Myanmar’s authorities for holding Ramadan prayers in the street where the local school they used to worship in for decades was closed by a nationalist mob.

Police charged the three men after nearly 50 Muslims gathered to pray on Wednesday on a road in Yangon’s Thaketatownship, the site of one of an increasing number of raids by Buddhist extremists on Islamic events.

The news comes as two nearby Islamic schools were shut down in late April after ultra-nationalists complained that Muslims were illegally praying there. Back then, authorities said the closure is temporary, without clarifying when they may be reopened.