{"id":15113,"date":"2018-09-03T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/reuters-journalists-jailed-in-myanmar-over-secrets-act\/00"},"modified":"2018-09-03T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:12:00","slug":"reuters-journalists-jailed-in-myanmar-over-secrets-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=15113","title":{"rendered":"Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar over secrets act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/reuters-journalists-jailed-in-myanmar-over-secrets-act-5b8cc2a0190d9.jpg\" alt=\"Kyaw Soe Oo (left) and Wa Lone after the verdict\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" \/> Image copyright EPA Image caption Kyaw Soe Oo (left) and Wa Lone say they have been framed by the police<\/p>\n<p>A court docket in Myanmar has sentenced Reuters reporters to seven years in prison for violating a state secrets and techniques act even as investigating violence in opposition to Rohingyas.<\/p>\n<p>Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested at the same time as wearing respectable documents which had just been given to them via police officers.<\/p>\n<p>They have maintained their innocence, saying they had been set up by police.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been broadly observed as a check of press freedom in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;i have no concern,&#8221; Wa Lone, one among the two journalists, mentioned after the verdict. &#8220;i have now not done anything unsuitable. i think in justice, democracy and freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/reuters-journalists-jailed-in-myanmar-over-secrets-act-5b8cc2a04d5c4.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/> Symbol copyright EPA Symbol caption prior to the verdict, other people marched to turn harmony<\/p>\n<p>The UN&#8217;s Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Myanmar Knut Ostby stated the journalists &#8220;need to be allowed to return to their households and proceed their paintings as journalists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We proceed to call for their unencumber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the decision have been delayed as soon as because of the judge&#8217;s unwell well being.<\/p>\n<p>What next for Myanmar after damning document? Myanmar rejects UN &#8216;genocide&#8217; accusation Seeing during the authentic tale in Myanmar<\/p>\n<p>The ruling comes a yr after the obstacle in Rakhine state came to a head when a Rohingya militant crew attacked several police posts.<\/p>\n<p>the army spoke back with a brutal crackdown against the Rohingya minority. The UN has stated best army figures in Myanmar have to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Media get right of entry to to Rakhine is strictly controlled through the federal government so it&#8217;s difficult to get reliable news from the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright EPA Image caption Kyaw Soe Oo (left) and Wa Lone say they have been framed by the police A court docket in Myanmar has sentenced Reuters reporters to seven years in prison for violating a state secrets and techniques act even as investigating violence in opposition to Rohingyas. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2007,6918,3131,1236,1500],"class_list":["post-15113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-crime-law-justice","tag-journalists","tag-myanmar","tag-society-social-issues","tag-western-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}