A Burmese court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating Burma’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act. At the time of their arrest, Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone were investigating a massacre committed by the Burmese military targeting Rohingya Muslims in the village of Inn Din nearly one year ago. Human rights and press freedom groups have called for the journalists to be freed. This is U.N. human rights chief and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.

Michelle Bachelet: “I was shocked today in the morning when I woke up and I learned that these two journalists from Reuters had been imposed a sentence of seven years of jail. I think the information they gave on the massacre was of public interest, and I think also that all the process, the trial was a travesty of justice. So I will urge the Myanmar government to release them as soon as possible, immediately.”