Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after reporting on the military’s abuses against the ethnic Rohingya minority were freed Tuesday as part of a presidential amnesty for more than 6,000 prisoners. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in late 2017 and convicted of violating the Southeast Asian country’s law on state secrets while working on a major investigative report that detailed the slaughter of a group of Muslim Rohingya men in Inn Din, a rural village in northwestern Myanmar. The military ultimately sentenced...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 07, 2019 03:21 UTC