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Reuters reporters Wa Lone (shown here talking to media in July last year) and Kyaw Soe Oo have spent more than 15 months in detention since they were arrested in December 2017. Photo: AFP
Myanmar’s Supreme Court was scheduled on Tuesday to hear the appeal of two Reuters journalists imprisoned for breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, in a case that has raised questions about Myanmar’s progress towards democracy.
Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have spent more than 15 months in detention since they were arrested in December 2017, while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslim civilians involving Myanmar soldiers.