Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had served 511 days before being released as part of an amnesty
to go to my newsroom,” Wa Lone told a crowd of reporters as he walked free from Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city. Mr Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who work for Reuters news agency, were released on May 7th. The pair were convicted in 2018 of breaking the Official Secrets Act and received a seven-year sentence. They had served 511 days before being released as part of an amnesty for more than 6,000 prisoners to mark Buddhist New Year.
The trial of the two journalists was a farce. They had been investigating the killing of ten men from the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state, where the army went on the rampage in 2017, forcing more than 700,000 Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh. The journalists said they were entrapped by police, who invited them to dinner, handed them state documents and arrested them shortly afterwards. One officer admitted to burning his notes on the arrest.
The amnesty provides a face-saving way out, but does not indicate that the government is turning over a new leaf. Under Ms Suu Kyi freedom of expression has been severely curtailed. A report released in January by Human Rights Watch, an, found that a loosely worded telecoms law is being used to intimidate journalists and silence critics of the government. Since thetook power in 2016, about 140 cases have been brought under the law, many of which are baseless.
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