Myanmar ships 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine

THE Star  
Myanmar
Monday, 20 Apr 2020

Released Rohingya prisoners arrive in Sittwe jetty in Rakhine State after being transported by military boat on Monday (April 20). Myanmar sent more than 800 Rohingya back to its restive Rakhine state on Monday after releasing them from various overcrowded jails as the country, accused of genocide against the minority, tries to grapple with the coronavirus crisis. - AFP

 

SITTWE (Myanmar): The Myanmar Government shipped hundreds of recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country's restive western borderlands on Monday (April 20), after fears that its overcrowded prisons could become hotbeds for runaway Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreaks.

Men, women and children belonging to the stateless and long-persecuted Muslim minority were among nearly 25,000 prisoners freed last week by a presidential pardon to mark the country's April New Year celebrations.

Exclusive: Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed after less than a year

REUTERS  

Shoon Naing, Simon Lewis

Ten Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound kneel in Inn Din village, Myanmar, September 1, 2017. Handout via REUTERS

 
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters.

Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya massacre freed after months

Aljazeera
27/05/2019

Troops released in November 2018 after serving less than one year of their 10-year prison terms, Reuters report says.

Ten Rohingya men with their hands bound kneel as members of the Myanmar security forces stand guard in Inn Din village on September 2, 2017 [Handout via REUTERS] [Reuters]

Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters news agency.

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.