On January 30, a court in Cox's Bazar sentenced eight Rohingya men to life imprisonment in a case over smuggling some 200,000 drug pills into the country in 2019, reports Dhaka Tribune. The convicts are Mohammad Doula, Robi Alam, Mohammad Alam, Mohammad Shafiqul, Mohammad Noor, Noor-A-Alam, Ali Ahmed, and Nurul Amin. They were also fined BDT 1 lakh each. According to the case documents, on 19 September 2019, a team of Teknaf Coast Guard seized a fishing boat from Chera Dwip of Saint Martins in Teknaf Sub-District of Cox's Bazar District.