Burma's top court rejects final appeal by jailed Reuters journalists

The Telegraph

By Nicola Smith 

23 April 2019 

 

 Journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone have spent more than 16 months in detention since they  were arrested in December 2017  Credit: AFP 

 

Burma’s top court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act while reporting on atrocities committed by the country’s army against 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.

Jailed Reuters reporters, U.S. border photographers win Pulitzer Prizes

REUTERS

by Reuters,By Daniel Trotta

Tuesday, 16 April 2019 

NEW YORK, April 15 (Reuters) - Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

The awards marked the second year in a row that Reuters has won two Pulitzers, the most prestigious prize in American journalism. Reuters has won seven since 2008.

Reuters reporters in Myanmar jailed for revealing Rohingya massacre and mass grave win Pulitzer Prizes.

South China Morning Post
By Reuters
16 Apr, 2019

• Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo found a mass grave filled with bones sticking out of the ground and went on to gather testimony from perpetrators, witnesses and families of victims
• Before they could complete their story, they were arrested and jailed for seven years for what international observers have called an effort to block the report

Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon. PHoto: Reuters

Imprisoned Reuters journalists in Myanmar, who uncovered the massacre of Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and security forces, have been announced winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prize.

Jailed Reuters reporters, U.S. border photographers win Pulitzer Prizes.

REUTERS
APRIL 16, 2019
By Daniel Trotta

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

The awards marked the second year in a row that Reuters has won two Pulitzers, the most prestigious prize in American journalism. Reuters has won seven since 2008.

Two of this year’s honorees have been jailed for 490 days in Myanmar for their role in uncovering the killings.

Reuters Journalists Jailed in Myanmar to Receive U.N. Press Freedom Prize

TIMES
By Wilder Davies
April 11, 2019

Reuters journalist Wa Lone (C) leaves a district court in Yangon on July 9, 2018 after being charged with another journalist Kyaw Soe Oo under the Official Secrets Act for illegally obtaining classified military documents that exposed extrajudicial killings of Rohingya Muslims by the military in Rakhine State.

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Two Reuters journalists who are currently serving seven-year prison sentences in Myanmar are to be awarded a prize for press freedom by the U.N.’s cultural organization.

The 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize, which honors the defense and promotion of press freedom, is being awarded to Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo as a tribute to their courage and commitment to freedom of expression, according to a press release from UNESCO. The two journalists had been working on stories about a military crackdown and alleged human rights violations in Rakhine state in Myanmar when they were arrested. They were also named as TIME’s Person of the Year, along with three other journalists and a news organization, last December.

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

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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.

Myanmar reporters among '10 most urgent' cases of press freedom violations

REUTERS  
March 15, 2019

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who have been sentenced to seven years in jail in Myanmar, were on Friday included in a list of 10 most urgent cases of journalists whose global press freedoms are being abused or whose situations demand justice.

Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone leaves the court in Yangon, Myanmar August 27, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang

The list, which will be updated each month, was put together by the One Free Press Coalition, a new group formed by leading news organizations to spotlight journalists under attack globally.

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Darkness Gathers in Myanmar

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By Jeff Kingston
February 08, 2019

The government’s crackdowns on free speech and the media have Aung San Suu Kyi’s former supporters in despair.

On January 11, the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail was rejected, a decision with far reaching consequences for Myanmar’s reputation and freedom of expression. The ruling conveyed a determination to bury the truth about the ethnic clearance operations that drove 730,000 of the Rohingya minority group into refugee camps in Bangladesh in 2017. Aung San Suu Kyi’s fall from grace continues due to her ongoing failure to speak out for the human rights of these refugees or condemn the military for its actions. In contrast to her silence, in August 2018 the UN determined that the circumstances surrounding the mass exodus amounted to genocide.

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Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi could release 2 jailed journalists. She has not.

 

By Shibani Mahtani February 4 at 5:00 AM

Vice President Pence and Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi confer on the sidelines of the 33rd meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore in November. When Pence pushed for the pardon of two journalists accused of violating a colonial-era law on state secrets, Suu Kyi rebuffed him. The pair had been working on the investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya men during an army crackdown in 2017. (Bernat Armangue/AFP/Getty Images)

When Vice President Pence met with Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi at a major Asian summit in Singapore last November, they found themselves at odds over one issue in particular: the case of two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar for investigating suspected atrocities.

Jailed Reuters reporters to launch last appeal to Myanmar court.

By AFP
1 February 2019

                    Myanmar police officer Moe Yan Naing was sentenced to a year in jail after giving testimony in support of two journalists

Lawyers for two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years in Myanmar on charges linked to their reporting of the Rohingya crisis are set Friday to lodge an appeal with the Supreme Court -- a last chance of a reprieve through the legal system.

Myanmar freedom of expression getting worse 'day by day', report finds

Aung San Suu Kyi criticised for failing to halt jailing of Reuters reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone

Myanmar state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has failed to act on repressive regime for journalists, Human Rights Watch said. Photograph: Hein Htet/EPA

  The Guardian
Leonie Kijewski
Fri 1 Feb 2019

Myanmar’s freedom of expression has deteriorated under its new government, a new Human Rights Watch report has said.

It cited the jailing of Reuters reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, who were investigating the Rohingya crisis, saying the case “shows the military’s willingness to penalise reporters who seek information the military would rather keep hidden”.