{"id":28449,"date":"2019-06-13T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=28449"},"modified":"2019-06-13T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:13:00","slug":"thai-police-detain-captain-crew-of-boat-carrying-65-ethnic-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=28449","title":{"rendered":"Thai police detain captain, crew of boat carrying 65 ethnic Rohingya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> SATUN (Southern Thailand), June 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Police detained six men, including the captain and crew of a fishing boat carrying 65 ethnic Rohingya, who were stranded on Pulau Rawi off the coast of Satun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of the Royal Thai Police&#8217;s Centre for Children, Women, Family Protection, and Anti-Trafficking in Persons director, Police General Suchat Theerasawat said the six detained comprised a Thai national from Ranong, who was the captain, and five Myanmar nationals who were the crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, the boat carrying 31 women, 29 men and five children, entered the waters of Satun and was stranded at Pulau Rawi due to engine trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo far, the police still cannot confirm that all the passengers on board the boat were victims of a human trafficking syndicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need some time to make further investigations, as well as identify the captain and crew, whether they are part of the human trafficking network or not,\u201d he told a media conference here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suchat said all the passengers were now placed at three temporary detention centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added they were also given health checks and medical treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SATUN (Southern Thailand), June 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Police detained six men, including the captain and crew of a fishing boat carrying 65 ethnic Rohingya, who were stranded on Pulau Rawi off the coast of Satun. Director of the Royal Thai Police&#8217;s Centre for Children, Women, Family Protection, and Anti-Trafficking in Persons director, Police General Suchat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":28450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}