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Bangladesh imposes mobile phone blackout in Rohingya refugee camps
Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar face prospect of further isolation as government orders operators to shut down services
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in refugee camps in Bangladesh face a communications blackout after the government ordered a ban on mobile phone services and sim cards.
The country’s telecommunications regulatory body cited security fears and illegal mobile use as it ordered operators to shut down services in the overcrowded camps in the south-eastern border district of Cox’s Bazar by next Sunday.
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