Myanmar Journalists' Group Wear Black Over Arrest of Reuters' Reporters

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On Saturday, a group of Myanmar journalists said they would begin wearing black T-shirts in protest of the detention of two Reuters reporters accused of violating the country’s Official Secrets Act.

The Protection Committee for Myanmar Journalists, a group of local reporters who have demonstrated against past prosecutions of journalists, decried the “unfair arrests that affect media freedom”..

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