YANGON: Cases against 128 Rohingya Muslims, detained after fleeing Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state, have been dropped as fears grow of a potential coronavirus outbreak in the country’s overcrowded prisons.

A military crackdown in 2017 forced some 750,000 Rohingyas to escape to Bangladesh, where they continue to languish in sprawling refugee cities.

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