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Freedom of Press, dead and buried by the Military in Myanmar

Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)A Myanmar court has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in jail after finding them guilty of breaking the Official Secrets Act.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were originally detained in December 2017 after working on an investigation into the mass killing of a number of Rohingya villagers in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/03/asia ... 1535957779


1st rule when ur involved in a genocide;
Dont let the truth get out

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 2:00 pm Freedom of Press, dead and buried by the Military in Myanmar

Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)A Myanmar court has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in jail after finding them guilty of breaking the Official Secrets Act.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were originally detained in December 2017 after working on an investigation into the mass killing of a number of Rohingya villagers in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/03/asia ... 1535957779


1st rule when ur involved in a genocide;
Dont let the truth get out

2nd rule do anything to make the first rule works.

Reuters reporters in Myanmar appeal conviction
5 Nov 2018 at 12:35
WRITER: REUTERS
YANGON, Myanmar: Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal on Monday against their conviction on charges of violating the Official Secrets Act.

The appeal cited evidence of a police set-up and lack of proof of a crime.

"We filed an appeal ... because the trial court's ruling was wrong," said Reuters president and editor-in-chief, Stephen J. Adler, said in a statement. "In condemning them as spies, it ignored compelling evidence of a police set-up, serious due process violations and the prosecution's failure to prove any of the key elements of the crime."

Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were found guilty in September after a trial at a Yangon district court in a landmark case that has raised questions about Myanmar's progress towards democracy and sparked an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in September that the jailing of the reporters had nothing to do with freedom of expression. In comments made the week after their conviction, she said they had been sentenced for handling official secrets and "were not jailed because they were journalists".
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/ ... conviction

May 7, 2019
Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail
YANGON (Reuters) - Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from prison on Tuesday after more than 500 days behind bars.

Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been convicted in September and sentenced to seven years in jail in a case that raised questions about Myanmar’s progress towards democracy and sparked an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates.

They were released under a presidential amnesty for 6,520 prisoners. President Win Myint has pardoned thousands of other prisoners in mass amnesties since last month.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myan ... SKCN1SD056

C..NTS

Sorry miss read that, very happy a sort of justice prevails, absolute injustice that they were ever jailed. c..nts.

Can't wait to hear a report about what they found while there.

they were investigating that the military murdered 10 Rohingya's
which was true

PS:
they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in May