Myanmar Court Extends Detention of Reuters Journalists
But Stephen J. Adler, the news agency’s president and editor in chief, has said the two journalists were performing "a crucial role in shedding light on news of global interest,
and they are innocent of any wrongdoing." The United States, which has cultivated closer ties with Myanmar in recent years, called the arrests "highly irregular." The secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, said the arrests were reflective of eroding freedoms generally in the country.
The journalists, U Wa Lone, 31, and U Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, were arrested while reporting on Rakhine State, where Myanmar’s military has taken part in a campaign of killings, rape and arson
that has sent over 655,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh.
Mr. Wa Lone and Mr. Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on Dec. 12 after having obtained photographs
from residents of a village in which, the army’s chief said, a mass grave was found.
27, 2017
HONG KONG — A court in Myanmar extended the detention of two Reuters journalists for another
14 days, despite international condemnation of their arrests as an attack on press freedom.
Mr. Wa Lone and Mr. Kyaw Soe Oo appeared briefly in court in Yangon, the country’s largest city and former capital, on Wednesday.
Mr. Wa Lone said that Luckily, I had chance to talk with my husband,