ZCZC
BFF-09
MYANMAR-UNREST-MEDIA-RIGHTS-REUTERS-ROHINGYA
Myanmar judge jails Reuters reporters for 7 years for breach of state
secrets act
YANGON, Sept 3, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Two Reuters journalists were jailed
Monday for seven years for breaching Myanmar’s official secrets act during
their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a judge said, a case that has drawn
outrage as an attack on media freedom.
“As they committed an offence under the state secrets act, they are
sentenced to seven years in prison each,” judge Ye Lwin told the court.
BSS/AFP/MR/ 1042 hrs