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Myanmar Court Sentences Reuters Reporters to Seven Years in Prison
Kyaw Soe Oo: ‘We were sent to prison to close the eyes and ears of people in Myanmar’
Two Reuters journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison for violating Myanmar’s state-secrets law while investigating a massacre of ethnic Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine state. Photo: AP
By Myo Myo in Yangon, Myanmar, and Jon Emont in Hong Kong
Updated Sept. 3, 2018 3:34 a.m. ET
A court sentenced two Reuters reporters who exposed human-rights abuses by Myanmar’s military to seven years in prison on Monday for obtaining state secrets, in a case that raised questions about judicial independence and became emblematic of the country’s faltering transition to democracy.
Defendants Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were entrapped by police officers who planted classified documents on them to disrupt their reporting into atrocities in Rakhine state, according to their defense. Myanmar has been accused by United Nations...
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