January 10, 2018
Prosecutors yesterday charged two Reuters reporters
under the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 14
years, their lawyer said.
Yangon Region’s northern district court started the
hearing yesterday morning of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, both reporters for
Reuters, who have been charged under the Official Secrets Act, a Colonial-era
law that prohibits “entering prohibited places, taking images or handling
secret official documents that might be, or is intended to be, directly or
indirectly, useful to an enemy”.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo along with two policemen
were detained on 12 December in Yangon for illegally obtaining and possessing
government documents, according to the Myanmar Police Force. The next hearing
for the journalists is scheduled for 23rd January, with a police officer who
opened the file against the two reporters expected to testify.
Zaw Gyi
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
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