Last December, two Burmese reporters, Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, thought they were meeting with police officers for dinner. Instead they were arrested, allegedly for possession of classified ...

Two weeks ago, none of this seemed very likely. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo—who had been reporting on state complicity in the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state—were arrested in December 2017 ...

After more than 500 days in prison, two Reuters journalists convicted of breaking Myanmar's Official Secrets Act have been released from prison. The two men, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were ...

Yangon, Myanmar -- Two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar's Official Secrets Act over reporting on security forces' abuses of Rohingya Muslims were pardoned and released ...

Yangon, Myanmar -- A court in Myanmar on Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters journalists convicted of violating the country's Official Secrets Act during their reporting on the country's ...

There isn’t much time. A doctor snaps on his white gloves, then plunges a needle into a thin, shackled arm. The onlookers are silent, the prosecutor stares at a wall. A small bird flies in through a ...

Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have received a Foreign Press Association Media Award, announced at a ceremony in London on Monday evening. The Foreign Press Association Media Awards ...

When Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were awarded the 2018 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism in Asia, they achieved an unhappy distinction: They were the first winners of Asia's most ...

The last time Kyaw Soe Oo spoke with his wife before his arrest, he played a prank on her. The Reuters journalist was on a trip to Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital, but on Dec. 12, 2017, he told his ...

TIME Magazine has announced its 2018 Person of the Year: "The Guardians," a group of journalists targeted for their work in "the War on Truth." The Guardians—Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, ...

People are pictured at a trestle bridge over Kandawgyi lake in the early morning in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 3, 2026.

Two Reuters reporters, jailed after investigating the killing of several Rohingya Muslims, will remain in prison, Myanmar's highest court ruled Tuesday. "They were sentenced for seven years and this ...