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TWO Myanmar journalists who exposed a military massacre appeared in court in Yangon today in a case that could see them jailed for 14 years, a day after they won a press freedom award.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on December 12 for allegedly violating the British colonial-era Official Secrets Act by receiving “important secret papers” from two policemen.
The story they were working on — a detailed investigation into the slaughter of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in the village of Inn Din by soldiers and Buddhists from a neighbouring village in September — was published by Reuters last week.
US Justice Department says the ‘reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are’. But media freedom advocates warn that Trump's ‘war on the press is looking for another victim’
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM