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 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 ...
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 ...
YANGON (Reuters) - Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed on Tuesday months after being sentenced to seven years in jail on convictions under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act. The ...
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 ...
On Tuesday, Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were honored at the PEN America Literary Gala in New York. Attending on their behalf to accept the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award were Wa ...
Last year, a court in Myanmar sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating the country’s colonial-era secrets law. The two men, Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, had been reporting ...
YANGON (Reuters) - Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed on Tuesday months after being sentenced to seven years in jail on convictions under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act. The ...