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The election is just the second since the Southeast Asian nation emerged from nearly half a century of junta rule in 2011.
Pope Francis met Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday for keenly-awaited talks in a tour aimed at alleviating religious and ethnic hatred against of Muslim Rohingya.
China has been accused of gross human rights violations committed against its Uighur Muslim population.
More than 2,000 Rohingya massed along Myanmar's coast this week after trekking from inland villages in Rakhine state to join the refugee exodus to Bangladesh, state media reported on Saturday.
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Amnesty International has urged a higher court to quash the sentence, saying it was a stark example of the "repressive application of the blasphemy law".
Authorities confirmed a group of Rohingya migrants that were feared to be dead were found alive on an island in Malaysia.
Only one Rohingya refugee from a group of 25 made it ashore after an attempt to swim ashore from their boat.
The men arrived in Malaysia by boat in April after a treacherous voyage but were then jailed and sentenced to three strokes of the cane each.
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After officials refused to allow the group to land, locals took matters into their own hands by jumping into boats which they used to pull the asylum seekers to shore.
More than 260 Rohingya arrived by boat in Malaysia on Monday, officials said, despite authorities' efforts to fight the coronavirus by stopping entry of the Muslim minority.