Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 06:18:09 +0000
Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison on Tuesday.
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NAYPYITAW, Myanmar – Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:06:15 +0000
YANGON, Myanmar — More than 9,500 prisoners were ordered released Wednesday in Myanmar under a presidential amnesty, but they did not include two Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters reporters.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:25:07 +0000
The United Nations’ cultural agency said Wednesday that it had awarded its annual press freedom prize to two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:07:53 +0000
Lawyers for two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal Friday with the Supreme Court.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:47:27 +0000
A Myanmar judge dismissed an appeal Friday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating Rohingya atrocities.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:16:37 +0000
Several dozen journalists and activists have held a rally in Myanmar’s biggest city to mark the anniversary of the arrest of two Reuters reporters.
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A Myanmar judge on Monday postponed the verdict against two Reuters journalists accused of illegally possessing official documents in a case that has drawn attention to the faltering state of press freedom in the troubled Southeast Asian nation.
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One of the two Reuters journalists charged with possessing official information has testified that he knew nothing about documents that police allegedly found on his phone and had no idea where they came from.
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