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Pressured over media rights, Myanmar frees Reuters reporters

By AUNG NAING SOE and GRANT PECKMay 8, 2019 GMT

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Two Reuters journalists whose imprisonment for their reporting on the Myanmar military's abuses of Rohingya Muslims drew the world's attention to curbs on freedom of the press were freed in a mass presidential pardon...

Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters

By AUNG NAING SOEApril 23, 2019 GMT

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military's brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims...

Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters

By AUNG NAING SOEJanuary 11, 2019 GMT

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — 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 crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, and maintained the seven-year prison terms they were sentenced to last year...

4 journalists and a newspaper are Time’s Person of the Year

By DAVID BAUDERDecember 12, 2018 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Time magazine on Tuesday recognized journalists, including the slain Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its 2018 Person of the Year in what it said was an effort to emphasize the importance of reporters' work in an increasingly hostile world...