State media says group, together with youngsters, despatched to jail for 2 to 5 years for not having paperwork.
Myanmar has jailed 112 folks, together with 12 youngsters, from the minority Rohingya after they had been caught trying to go away the nation.
The court docket in Bogale within the southern Ayeyarwady area of Myanmar sentenced the group on January 6, the state-run International New Mild of Myanmar reported on Tuesday, citing native police.
The group was arrested in December after they had been found on a motorboat “with none official paperwork”, the report stated.
Of the 12 youngsters, 5 had been underneath the age of 13 and sentenced to 2 years, and the older youngsters to 3 years. They had been transferred to a “youth coaching faculty” on Monday, in keeping with the paper.
The adults had been all jailed for 5 years, it added.
The principally Muslim Rohingya are denied citizenship and different primary rights in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which claims they’re “unlawful migrants” from South Asia.
Lots of of hundreds fled the nation for neighbouring Bangladesh in 2017 after a brutal crackdown by the army that’s now the topic of a world genocide trial.
Lots of those who stay in Myanmar are confined to camps the place they’re topic to extreme restrictions on their motion, hindering their potential to work, examine or get medical help.
Described because the world’s most persecuted minority, Rohingya from the refugee camps in Bangladesh in addition to in Myanmar proceed to danger harmful sea journeys to journey to Malaysia and Indonesia, Muslim-majority nations the place they imagine they’ll be capable to lead higher lives.
At the very least 185 Rohingya landed in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh late final month after their boat drifted at sea for weeks.
The United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees says the variety of Rohingya endeavor such journeys elevated sixfold final yr in contrast with 2021.
Two boats, carrying greater than 200 folks in complete, got here ashore within the northern Indonesia province of Aceh final month.