Published : Friday, 2 February, 2018 at 12:00 AM Count : 4
Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo (C) carries his daughter while walking in handcuffs after a bail hearing at a courthouse in Yangon on February 1. A Myanmar court denied bail to two Reuters journalists charged under a secrecy act that could see them face up to 14 years in jail. Photo : AFP
YANGON, Feb 1 : A district court in Myanmar rejected bail on Thursday for two Reuters journalists accused of violating the country's colonial-era Official Secrets Act. In proceedings, a lawyer for the two journalists told the court that documents police said were found in their possession when they were arrested contained information that was publicly available in newspaper reports. Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, had worked on Reuters coverage of a crisis in Rakhine state, where an army crackdown on insurgents that started on Aug. 25 has triggered the flight of nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims to neighbouring Bangladesh. -REUTERS
