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Myanmar releases Reuters journalists detained in 2017

By Diana Stancy Correll
Published May 7, 2019 3:49am ET
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Myanmar releases Reuters journalists detained in 2017
Protestors demonstrate by holding a symbolic fence in front of the Myanmar Embassy to petition for the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. | (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Two Reuters journalists who were detained in Myanmar were released Monday evening.

Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were arrested in late 2017 for obtaining “important secret papers” from police officers and in September were convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail for violating the colonial-era Official Secrets Act.

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