Myanmar jails 112 Rohingya refugees and transfers children to ‘youth training school’

Myanmar court sentences five children under 13 years of age to two years in jail before transfer

Myanmar has sentenced 112 Rohingya refugees to prison for travelling to the country “without legal documents”, its state media said.

Among those sentenced are at least a dozen children who were given a jail term between two and three years. The adults were sentenced to five years in prison.

Police said the group of Rohingya refugees were arrested last month in Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady region.