Malaysia has deported 1,086 people back to Myanmar, defying a court order and appeals from human rights groups to halt the process.

Rights organisations say the group includes some ethnic minorities which have suffered persecution in Myanmar.

They say sending them back to Myanmar, where the army took power in a coup, could put them at even greater risk.

But Malaysia explained that those being sent back committed immigration offences, and are not asylum seekers.

BBC

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