They were freed from a jail north of the capital on Friday after a court dropped additional charges that carried between three and five more years in prison. "They were all released this morning at 7am from Yamethin prison," lawyer Khin Maung Zaw told AFP. Aung Naing Soe, the local reporter who spent his 27th birthday behind bars, said he was grateful to be freed and hoped other detained journalists would soon be released. "I also hope and demand that the other similar cases like us...will be set free," Aung Naing Soe told AFP, adding that authorities have not returned his crew's phones, computers or drones. TRT has not confirmed the subject of the documentary but said the reporters told Myanmar's Ministry of Information about their filming plans in advance.

Source: New Strait Times December 29, 2017 05:03 UTC