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Human rights experts outraged at Myanmar's crackdown on press

Newly installed U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet took on Myanmar's government, defending the right to press freedom and calling for the release of two journalists.

Myanmar authorities at a high-level U.N. visit.
Myanmar authorities at a high-level U.N. visit. (AN/J. Heilprin)

GENEVA (AN) — In her first day on the job, U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet lost no time taking on a government built on authoritarian military rule and defending the right to press freedom.

Bachelet, the new head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, strongly condemned Myanmar's conviction of two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and called for their immediate and unconditional release.

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