POLICY_ Nikki Haley: Reuters convictions ‘another terrible stain on the Burmese government’

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Nikki Haley: Reuters convictions ‘another terrible stain on the Burmese government’

by Joel Gehrke | September 03, 2018 05:11 PM

A pair of Reuters reporters were sentenced Monday to seven years imprisonment by a court in Myanmar, drawing a rebuke from Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

“The conviction of two journalists for doing their job is another terrible stain on the Burmese government,” Haley said. “We will continue to call for their immediate and unconditional release.”

Haley’s statement followed the American convention of refusing to use the name “Myanmar” to refer to the country otherwise known as Burma, because its government was established through a military junta. The Reuters reporters were arrested following their coverage of a massacre of an ethnic Muslim minority community by government forces; the atrocities, and the convictions, underscore the decline of U.S. hopes for reform.

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