Dozens Protest Sentencing of Reuters Journalists in Yangon

Dozens of students, activists, and journalists took to the streets of Myanmar's largest city Sunday to protest the sentencing of two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison. Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested last December after meeting with two police officers at a restaurant in Yangon and given a stack of documents. They were charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, which was enacted in 1923, when Myanmar was called Burma and was under British colonial...

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