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Jailed Reuters Journalist Accuses Burmese Police of Framing Him

HeadlineJul 24, 2018

In Burma, jailed Reuters journalist Wa Lone, who helped expose a Burmese military massacre of Rohingya Muslims, has accused the police of framing him, handing him documents he had not sought only minutes before he and his colleague, Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested in December. These documents are being used by Burmese prosecutors as evidence to argue the two Reuters journalists have violated the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, which carries up to 14 years in prison. The two journalists have been jailed since December.

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