A federal judge ordered Facebook Inc. on Wednesday to hand over records related to accounts it shut down in 2018 that were linked to government-backed violence against the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The ruling, by a magistrate judge in Washington, criticized Facebook for refusing to provide the records to countries pursuing a case against Myanmar in international court.

Facebook had resisted the request for information related to the closed accounts, arguing that providing such documents in response to a civil subpoena would violate U.S. privacy law. But the judge ruled that the deleted posts don’t fall under legal protections for personal communications.