Who Was Most Opposed to Freeing 2 Reporters in Myanmar? Aung San Suu Kyi

The New York Times
By Richard C. Paddock, Saw Nang and Edward Wong
May 10, 2019

The freed Reuters reporters, U Wa Lone, left, and U Kyaw Soe Oo, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday.CreditCreditPool photo 

BANGKOK — The biggest obstacle to releasing two imprisoned Reuters reporters in Myanmar was not the country’s military, diplomats and others say, but its de facto civilian leader: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and former political prisoner herself who once declared, “Please use your liberty to promote ours.”

Did International Pressure Force Myanmar to Release Two Reuters Journalists?

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo walked free after more than 500 days behind bars. The two Reuters journalists were investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims during an army crackdown in Rakhine State. They were then arrested and sentenced to seven years in jail for violating the country’s Official Secrets Act. Their incarceration led to an international outcry. Did that pressure lead to their release?
Guests:
Nyo Ohn Myint
Former member of Myanmar's National League for Democracy

Ro Nay San Lwin
Coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition
Thomas Melia
Washington Director of PEN America


Link:https://www.trtworld.com/video/the-newsmakers/did-international-pressure-force-myanmar-to-release-two-reuters-journalists/5cd3cb37e0252f7cb05912de

White House hails 'principles' of free press in praising release of Reuters reporters in Myanmar

The Washinton Times
By Tom Howell Jr. - 
The Washington Times - 
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 
 
Arrests sparked outcry, served as key test for a free press

Reuters reporters Wa Lone, center right, and Kyaw Soe Oo hold their children after being freed from prison, in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The two journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act over reporting on ... more >

The White House hailed the release Tuesday of two Reuters journalists who spent over 500 days in a Myanmar prison after reporting on atrocities against Rohingya Muslims.

Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been sentenced to seven years in prison but received pardons under a sweeping presidential amnesty around the traditional New Year, which began in April.

Myanmar Pardons Two Reuters Reporters Jailed for Exposing Massacre of Rohingya

TIMES
By Amy Gunia
Updated: May 7, 2019
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Two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar for reporting on a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims have been released after spending more than 500 days behind bars.

Reuters journalists Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo freed from Myanmar jail

Aljazeera

News/Journalism Is Not A Crime

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested after investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men by security forces.

Two Reuters journalists, jailed in Myanmar after being convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act, have been freed after more than 500 days behind bars.

The two reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were convicted in September and sentenced to seven years in jail in a case that raised questions about Myanmar's progress towards democracy and sparked an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates.

Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail

REUTERS
Simon Lewis, Shoon Naing

YANGON (Reuters) - Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars. 

The two reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been convicted in September and sentenced to seven years in jail, in a case that raised questions about Myanmar’s progress toward democracy and sparked an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates.

Israeli tech used to imprison journalists in Myanmar — report

THE TIMES OF ISREAL
By TOI staff  
5 May 2019,

Company that breaches cellphones says it stopped service to country’s military rulers, but not before two Reuters reporters jailed.

Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo, left, and Wa Lone, are handcuffed as they are escorted by police out of the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar after being sentenced to seven years in prison. (AP /Thein Zaw)

The military-backed government of Myanmar used Israeli technology to gather evidence that led to the jailing of two Reuters journalists, according to report on Sunday.
Police in Myanmar used Petah Tikva-based Cellebrite’s products to breach the journalists’ mobile phones, leading to the imprisonment of Pulitzer Prize-winners Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were sentenced to seven years in prison for violating state secrecy laws, the Washington Post reported. 

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.

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.