A court in Myanmar on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of violating a colonial-era “official secrets” act, concluding a trial that fuelled concerns about the country’s commitment to press freedom and the rule of law.
The court sentenced Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28 — both Myanmar citizens who work as reporters for the news agency — to seven years of prison after convicting them of illegal possession of official documents, an offence that carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.
The men were arrested in December while reporting a story on the Myanmar military’s violent crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims in the country’s northern Rakhine state. They have been held in Yangon’s notorious Insein prison ever since.
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