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Myanmar court keeps journalists locked up in Rohingya case

The U.N. and other organizations urged the nation to immediately release the two Reuters journalists.

Journalists with a U.N. delegation at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar
Journalists with a U.N. delegation at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (AN/J. Heilprin)

Myanmar’s top court upheld the convictions of two jailed Reuters journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on some of the country’s grave crimes against hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.

Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, have been imprisoned since December 2017 and are serving seven-year terms for violating the Official Secrets Act.

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