US judge orders Facebook to release anti-Rohingya account records

Gambia is seeking the records as part of a genocide case against Myanmar over the brutal 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya.

A judge in the United States has ordered Facebook to release records of now-closed accounts connected to anti-Rohingya violence in Myanmar, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The judge in Washington, DC, criticised Facebook for failing to hand over information to investigators seeking to prosecute the country for international crimes against the Muslim minority Rohingya, the newspaper said.

Facebook had refused to release the data, saying it would violate a US law that bars electronic communication services from disclosing users’ communications.