Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were mobbed by media as they stepped out of Yangon’s notorious Insein prison after their lengthy detention
Ruling decried as ‘another injustice’ against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were investigating 2017 killings of Rohingya
Their conviction in September sparked widespread global condemnation
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Yangon on December 12 and handed seven-year jail sentences under a state secrets law
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Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists have filed an appeal against their seven-year jail sentence
The case has sparked an outcry among the international community as an attempt to muzzle reporting on the crackdown by Myanmar’s security forces
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been detained in Myanmar’s infamous Insein prison since December in the case which has ignited a global outcry