World May 07

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Why these reporters spent 18 months in a Burmese jail

After nearly 18 months, two Reuters journalists have left prison in Myanmar. The crime that put them there: Revealing information the country’s government wanted to suppress, about its persecution campaign against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. John Yang talks to Priscilla…

World Sep 03

Reuters journalist Wa Lone departs Insein court after his verdict announcement in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sept. 3. Photo by Ann Wang/Reuters
Myanmar court sentences Reuters reporters to 7 years in jail

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been reporting on the brutal crackdown on the Rohingya when they were arrested and charged with violating the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, punishable by up to 14 years in prison. They had pleaded…