Monday Morning Briefing: Myanmar court jails Reuters reporters for seven years
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September 3rd, 2018
Reuters News Now
Highlights
A Myanmar judgefound Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and sentenced them to seven years in prison, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards democracy in the Southeast Asian country.
Time and again,Myanmar’s government appeared at risk of blowing its prosecution of the two journalists who exposed a massacre of 10 Muslim men and implicated security forces in the killings. Read their investigation here and a collation of all Special Reports from Myanmar.
“Today is a sad day.” Our Reuters friends colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime they didn’t commit. Here’s a statement from Reuters editor-in-chief @stephenjadler. https://reut.rs/2wDPl5k
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