BANGKOK — Two Reuters reporters who documented a massacre of Rohingya Muslim villagers in Myanmar were found guilty Monday of possessing secret documents and sentenced to seven years in prison. The judge in the case, U Ye Lwin, said he based his verdict in part on documents found on the cellphones of the two reporters, U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo, after they were arrested. “It cannot be said that they were doing normal journalistic work,” the judge said. “And the top secret documents they were holding can be useful to the enemies of the country or the ones who oppose the country.”Western governments and rights groups around the world had urged Myanmar to free the journalists as a sign of commitment to the establishment of democracy and freedom of expression.

Source: New York Times September 03, 2018 04:07 UTC