Myanmar’s Highest Court Upholds Conviction of Reuters Journalists – The New York Times

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Myanmar’s Highest Court Upholds Conviction of Reuters Journalists

The reporters, U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo, won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this month for their reporting on a military massacre of Rohingya Muslims.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/world/asia/reuters-journalists-myanmar-supreme-court.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The two reporters, U Wa Lone, 33, and U Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were sentenced in September to seven years in prison under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act for receiving documents from a police officer. They have been imprisoned for 16 months, drawing international condemnation by human rights groups and media organizations.