Yangon, Myanmar -- A court in Myanmar on Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters journalists convicted of violating the country's Official Secrets Act during their reporting on the country's ...
Yangon, Myanmar -- Two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar's Official Secrets Act over reporting on security forces' abuses of Rohingya Muslims were pardoned and released ...
Last December, two Burmese reporters, Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, thought they were meeting with police officers for dinner. Instead they were arrested, allegedly for possession of classified ...
BANGKOK — Tuesday brought rare good news from Myanmar: Photographs and videos of two beaming journalists, reunited with their wives and young children after spending 16 months in prison. The release ...
Two Reuters journalists who were jailed in Myanmar for reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims have been released as part of a mass presidential amnesty. What’s happening to the Rohingya ...
Statement from Stephen J. Adler, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters, on December 12, 2018, marking one year that Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been imprisoned in Myanmar “A year ago, Reuters ...
The last time Kyaw Soe Oo spoke with his wife before his arrest, he played a prank on her. The Reuters journalist was on a trip to Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital, but on Dec. 12, 2017, he told his ...
There isn’t much time. A doctor snaps on his white gloves, then plunges a needle into a thin, shackled arm. The onlookers are silent, the prosecutor stares at a wall. A small bird flies in through a ...
A court in Myanmar has upheld the convictions of two Reuters journalists serving seven-year prison sentences in a case that has drawn international criticism and cast doubt on the state of democracy ...
Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been recognized with two new honors: the Don Bolles Medal, from Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), and by the Hanthawaddy U Win Tin Foundation, ...