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A Myanmar judge found Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and sentenced them to seven years in prison, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards democracy in the Southeast Asian country.

Time and again, Myanmar’s government appeared at risk of blowing its prosecution of the two journalists who exposed a massacre of 10 Muslim men and implicated security forces in the killings. Read their investigation here and a collation of all Special Reports from Myanmar.

“Today is a sad day.” Our Reuters friends colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime they didn’t commit. Here’s a statement from Reuters editor-in-chief ⁦@stephenjadler⁩. https://reut.rs/2wDPl5k

2:59 AM - September 3, 2018

united states

Democrats criticized the Trump administration for refusing to release thousands of documents on Brett Kavanaugh ahead of this week’s upcoming Senate hearings on his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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World

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