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Amal Clooney appeals to Suu Kyi for reporters' release
The two fathers were jailed for seven years earlier this month, fueling international outrage.
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US senators urge Pompeo to press for release of Reuters journalists in Myanmar
The journalists were found guilty on official secrets charges and sentenced earlier this month in a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy in Myanmar.
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Vice President Pence calls for release of jailed Reuters journalists
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were investigating the killing by security forces of Rohingya villagers at the time of their arrest last December, and had pleaded not guilty.
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How Myanmar punished two reporters for uncovering an atrocity
On 20 April, a prosecution witness revealed in pre-trial hearings that police planted military documents on Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo in order to frame them.
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[UPDATE] Verdict postponed in Myanmar's case against Reuters journalists
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, are charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
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Black hoods, kneeling, no sleep: Reuters reporter details Myanmar custody
The 28-year-old reporter and his colleague Wa Lone, 32, face charges brought under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, in a case seen as a test of press freedom in Myanmar.
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Myanmar violated UN child rights pact in Rohingya crackdown, experts find
Children make up around half of the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh since the start of a military crackdown last August.
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Myanmar police focused interrogation on Rohingya story: Reuters journalist
The killings took place during a military crackdown that United Nations agencies say led to more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh last year.
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Myanmar court files secrets act charges against Reuters reporters
Yangon district judge Ye Lwin charged reporters Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, with breaching the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
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Myanmar court to hear arguments on charging jailed Reuters reporters
The pre-trial hearings, which began in January, finished last month. The two reporters have been denied bail and have been held in Yangon’s Insein jail since being arrested in December.
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Witness no-show as Reuters reporters mark six months in Myanmar detention
The police major conducted the inquiry after the journalists were arrested on 12 December. They have now spent six months in detention.
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Myanmar police witness says searched Reuters reporters' phones without warrant
The reporters have told relatives they were arrested almost immediately after being handed some rolled up papers at a restaurant in northern Yangon by two policemen.
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Myanmar policeman who said Reuters reporters were framed details sting operation
At the time of their arrest in December, the reporters had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
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Myanmar court accepts testimony of policeman who said Reuters reporters framed
Later on Wednesday Mark Field, a junior British foreign minister, called again on authorities in Myanmar to halt a “gross perversion” of press freedom.
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Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar due to appear in court
The reporters were detained on 12 December after they had been invited to meet police officers over dinner in Yangon.
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EU raises concerns with Myanmar's Suu Kyi over detention of Reuters reporters
The two are due to appear in court on Wednesday. It will be their second appearance in court and the prosecutor could request that charges are filed against them.
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Myanmar to grant families access to detained journos - media
Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been in detention for 11 days in an undisclosed location and have had no access to their families, lawyers or colleagues.
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Myanmar says two Reuters journalists remanded in custody
Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been in detention for nine days with no detail on where they are being held.
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Myanmar says two Reuters journalists remanded in custody
Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been in detention for nine days with no detail on where they are being held.
