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Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo gesture as they walk to Insein prison gate after being freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

Myanmar grants jailed Reuters journalists amnesty

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were mobbed by media as they stepped out of Yangon’s notorious Insein prison after their lengthy detention

Wa Lone in police custody. The case against has become a cause celebre for press freedom. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

Top Myanmar court rejects appeal of Reuters journalists

Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act

Wa Lone (Reuters)

Myanmar court rejects appeal by jailed Reuters journalists

Ruling decried as ‘another injustice’ against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were investigating 2017 killings of Rohingya

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating the September 2017 killings of 10 Rohingya Muslims in conflict-scarred Rakhine state. (Reuters)

Myanmar Reuters journalists appeal seven-year sentence

Their conviction in September sparked widespread global condemnation

Wa Lone in police custody. The case against has become a cause celebre for press freedom. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

Messages of support for Myanmar Reuters reporters as they mark year in jail

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Yangon on December 12 and handed seven-year jail sentences under a state secrets law

Ressa and the site have been hit with multiple counts of misleading the government on taxes, and if convicted on one count alone she faces up to a decade behind bars. (Time Magazine)

From wars to Duterte: Journalist ‘holds the line’

Maria Ressa’s news site, Rappler, has taken a critical stand on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-drug crackdown

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating the September 2017 killings of 10 Rohingya Muslims in conflict-scarred Rakhine state. (Reuters)

Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters file appeal

Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists have filed an appeal against their seven-year jail sentence

Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone is escorted by police. (Reuters)

Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar ‘state secrets’ case

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 and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating the September 2017 killings of 10 Rohingya Muslims in conflict-scarred Rakhine state. (Reuters)

Myanmar court postpones verdict for Reuters journalists

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