A Myanmar court refused to dismiss a case Wednesday against two Reuters journalists who have been held in prison since December for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, highlighting the country’s increasingly troubled shift to democracy.
The case against reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo is a microcosm of the deterioration of press freedom since Myanmar’s military drove some 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims across the border to Bangladesh. The United Nations said that campaign, launched last August, bears the hallmarks...