A court in Myanmar’s Yangon region began hearing testimony Thursday in a case against roughly 70 Rohingya Muslims arrested a week ago for attempting to flee the country illegally for Malaysia, RFA reported.
The group, which includes children, are being charged with violating Myanmar’s nationality laws because Rohingya, who are not one of Myanmar’s official ethnic groups, are barred from travelling without permission and because the members of the group did not have identification cards, said their attorney Thazin Myat Myat Win.
Myanmar’s constitution requires Myanmar residents to carry some kind of registration card whenever they travel.