Myanmar freed 2 Reuters journalists Tuesday after imprisoning them for more than 500 days for reporting on military atrocities against Rohingya Muslims.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, both Myanmar nationals, were investigating a massacre of Rohingya civilians in the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine state when police arrested them in December 2017.
Court testimony later showed that police officers had entrapped the men by inviting them to a meeting and handed them documents allegedly linked to the army campaign in Rakhine. They were convicted under the secrets act, which imposes stiff punishment for obtaining official documents that could be “useful to an enemy.”
Reuters later published an extensive report by the journalists saying that Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist villagers had executed 10 Rohingya men and buried them in a shallow grave at Inn Din.Today's Headlines Newsletter
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