Published: November 04, 2018
Guilty verdict in June was widely condemned; appeal says trial ‘ignored compelling evidence of police set-up’
Lawyers in Myanmar have filed an appeal on behalf of jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were imprisoned for reporting on the military’s violence against the Rohingya, on the basis that the court’s ruling was “wrong”.
In June, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years for breaching the country’s official secrets act after they were accused of being in possession of secret documents.
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