Myanmar has jailed 112 people, including 12 children, from the minority Rohingya after they were caught attempting to leave the country.
The group was arrested in December after they were discovered on a motorboat “without any official documents,” the report said.
The mostly Muslim Rohingya are denied citizenship and other basic rights in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which claims they are “illegal migrants” from South Asia. Hundreds of thousands fled the country for neighboring Bangladesh in 2017 after a brutal crackdown by the military that is now the subject of an international genocide trial.
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