Myanmar Judge Jails Reuters Reporters For Seven Years
  • 6 years ago
A Myanmar judge on September 3 found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years. Yangon northern district judge Ye Lwin said Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, breached the colonial-era Official Secrets Act when they collected and obtained confidential documents.