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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 ...
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo earlier this month shared with their colleagues the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, one of journalism's highest honors. The reporters were arrested in December ...
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 ...
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo walk to Insein prison gate after being freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar, May 7, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Wang (Ann Wang/Reuters ...
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo walked free Tuesday from Yangon’s Insein jail, amid a gaggle of reporters, just weeks after their final appeal was quashed. The pair, who received this year’s Pulitzer ...
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have now spent 114 days in prison, and it’s taking a toll on their health. But the examination must be swift. The audience rises from their seats as the judge brings a ...
The two men, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were pardoned by President Win Myint as part of New Year's amnesty custom in which thousands of people were released from the country's overcrowded ...
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were sentenced to seven years in prison last September, a ruling that cast a pall over Myanmar’s media community, and sparked increased international criticism ...
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, and became symbols of press freedom. Now, after more than 500 days behind bars, they've been freed ...