Myanmar Court Rejects Appeal Of 2 Imprisoned Reuters Journalists
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were reporting on a massacre of Rohingya men when they were arrested and later convicted of violating the country's Official Secrets Act. They were sentenced to seven years.
A court in Myanmar has upheld the convictions of two Reuters journalists serving seven-year prison sentences in a case that has drawn international criticism and cast doubt on the state of democracy in the country.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo last fall of violating the Myanmar's colonial-era Official Secrets Act. They were in Myanmar a massacre of 10 Rohingya men amid a military crackdown on the country's Muslim minority.
