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Burma: Two Reuters Journalists Arrested After Covering Rohingya Plight

HeadlineDec 20, 2017

In Burma, authorities have arrested a pair of Reuters journalists, who could face up to 14 years in prison for allegedly violating Burma’s Official Secrets Act. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been reporting on military-backed violence against minority Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State before their arrest on December 12. Reuters’ editor-in-chief called the arrests a “blatant attack on press freedom,” and foreign ministers around the world—including U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson—have demanded their release.

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