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January 11, 2018

Burma: Two Reuters Reporters Charged over Rohingya Reporting
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In Burma, authorities have formally charged a pair of Reuters
journalists with violating the Official Secrets Act, despite
international condemnation over their arrests. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
appeared in court near Yangon Wednesday. They face up to 14 years if
convicted on the colonial-era law. Last month, the two were arrested as
they investigated the site of a mass grave in Rakhine State, where the
United Nations says Burma's government has led a campaign of ethnic
cleansing against minority Muslim Rohingya.


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