{"id":66201,"date":"2018-09-03T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=66201"},"modified":"2018-09-03T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T14:43:09","slug":"rsf-appalled-by-jail-terms-for-two-myanmar-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=66201","title":{"rendered":"RSF Appalled by Jail Terms for Two Myanmar Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yangon, Myanmar…..Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the iniquity of the seven-year prison sentences that two Reuters reporters received in Yangon today at the end of a sham trial, and reiterates its call for their immediate release.\u00a0 On what was a dark day for press freedom in Myanmar,\u00a0Kyaw Soe Oo<\/strong>and\u00a0Wa Lone<\/strong>\u00a0were convicted of violating the country\u2019s Official Secrets Act for investigating a massacre of ten Rohingya civilians by soldiers exactly a year and a day ago in Inn Dinn, a village in the north of Rakhine state.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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\u201cThe conviction of Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone is a terrible blow to press freedom in Myanmar,\u201d RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. \u201cAs the justice system clearly followed orders in this case, we call on the country\u2019s most senior officials, starting with government leader Aung San Suu Kyi, to free these journalists, whose only crime was to do their job. After a farcical prosecution, this outrageous verdict clearly calls into question Myanmar\u2019s transition to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The massacre investigated by Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone was acknowledged by the army and seven soldiers were sentenced to ten years in prison.<\/p>\n

During the preliminary hearings in the case of the two journalists, a police officer admitted that his superiors framed them by giving them supposedly classified documents and then immediately arresting them. The entire prosecution case was based solely on this trumped-up evidence.<\/p>\n

Myanmar is ranked 137th out of 180 countries in\u00a0RSF’s 2018 World Press Freedom Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yangon, Myanmar…..Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the iniquity of the seven-year prison sentences that two Reuters reporters received in Yangon today at the end of a sham trial, and reiterates its call for their immediate release.\u00a0 On what was a dark day for press freedom in Myanmar,\u00a0Kyaw Soe Ooand\u00a0Wa Lone\u00a0were convicted of violating the country\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/birmanie20180903.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}