'We’re Not Allowed to Dream.' Rohingya Muslims Exiled to Bangladesh Are Stuck in Limbo Without an End In Sight

TIMES
Feliz Solomon,
Time• May 23, 2019

The Rohingya Muslims now live in camps in Bangladesh in a refugee crisis after fleeing persecution in Myanmar. Will they ever get to leave?

From the moment she took her first breath of warm April air, Maisa Kauser was one of the nowhere people. She was born on the floor of an unfurnished hut with no electricity and no running water. Only an untrained midwife helped her mother Umaira deliver the baby. The 20-year-old said holding Maisa felt like “holding a whole new world in my arms.” But no one was there to register the birth or officially record that she exists.

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 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.