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Myanmar releases Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison; duo among thousands granted amnesty by president

Myanmar on Tuesday released Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison, 512 days after they were sent to jail for working on an investigative report on the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in Rakhine state.

Myanmar Supreme Court rejects appeal of two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years for violating Official Secrets Act

A district court judge in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, found the two journalists guilty under the Official Secrets Act in September, 2018 and sentenced them to seven years in prison. The Yangon High Court rejected an earlier appeal in January.

Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar win Pulitzer; Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo awarded for report on Rohingyas that landed them in prison

Reuters won a Pulitzer prize for an investigative report that revealed the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, done by two young Reuters reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo who are currently in jail.

Reuters journalists jailed for seven years for violating Myanmar Official Secrets Act; activists condemn sentencing

The arrest of Myanmar Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo has sparked an outcry among the international community as an attempt to muzzle reporting on last year's crackdown by Myanmar's security forces on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state.

53 journalists killed worldwide so far in 2018 claims report; Afghanistan deadliest country for scribes

The New York-based organization found that 34 journalists were killed in retaliation for their work as of 14 December, while at least 53 were killed overall. That compares to 18 retaliation killings among the 47 deaths documented by the committee in 2017.

Jamal Khashoggi, four other journalists 'targeted' by governments feature as Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year'

Among those named with Khashoggi were Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo - currently imprisoned in Myanmar - and the workforce of the Capital Gazette in the US city of Annapolis.

Canada parliament passes motion to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship over Rohingya crisis

The House of Commons last week unanimously voted to call the killings of Rohingya a genocide, a move that Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said at the time was significant.

Mike Pence calls on Myanmar to release two Reuters reporters, says they should be commended, not imprisoned

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from the Reuters news agency were sentenced on Monday in proceedings that were widely decried as unfair. They had reported about the army's brutal counterinsurgency campaign that drove 700,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh.

Myanmar govt defends Aung San Suu Kyi's silence over jailed Reuters reporters; world leaders, rights groups express outrage

A Myanmar government official defended the silence of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the arrests of two Reuters journalists by saying that criticising the judicial system would be tantamount to contempt of court.

'New low for press freedom': Human rights activists, journalists condemn sentencing of Reuters scribes in Myanmar

A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards democracy in the Southeast Asian country.