US Condemns Myanmar Ruling Keeping 2 Journalists Imprisoned.

VOA

April 24, 2019

FILE - Detained Myanmar journalists Wa Lone, (L) and Kyaw Soe Oo (3rd-R) are escorted by police from the courthouse as they are taken to prison after the first day of trial in Yangon, July 16, 2018.

The U.S. on Wednesday condemned the Myanmar Supreme Court decision upholding the convictions of two Reuters journalists for violating the country's Official Secrets Act by uncovering the Myanmar military's massacre of Rohingya Muslims.

Top Myanmar court rejects appeal by massacre reporters.

Bangkok Post
23 Apr 2019

Detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug 20, 2018. (Reuters file photo)

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years each on charges linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, one of the defence lawyers confirmed.

Reporters Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the Official Secrets Act.

Myanmar Supreme Court Agrees to Rule on Reuters Journalists' Appeal

RADIO FREE ASIA  
2019-03-26

Khin Maung Zaw, a Myanmar attorney representing jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Naypyidaw, Feb. 1, 2019. AFP

Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to rule on an appeal filed by lawyers representing two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in jail for violating the country’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act while they reported on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims during a brutal military-led crackdown in Rakhine state.

Myanmar’s top court to hear Reuters reporters’ appeal.

ejinsight

on the pulse

Mar 26, 2019 9:35am

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.