Anonymous ID: 0f171a Sept. 5, 2018, 2:02 a.m. No.2884786   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.thestate.com/news/business/national-business/article217790480.html

 

AP reporters = clowns? Pence is headed there to sort out the mess.

 

The wives of two Myanmar reporters for the Reuters news agency said they were shocked by a sentence of seven years' imprisonment against them on charges of possessing state secrets.

 

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced Monday in proceedings that were widely decried as unfair. They had reported about the army's brutal counterinsurgency campaign that drove 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to Bangladesh. The subject is sensitive in Myanmar because of worldwide condemnation of the military's human rights abuses, which it denies.

 

Wa Lone's wife, Pan Ei Mon, said at a news conference on Tuesday that she never expected such a harsh punishment "because everyone knows that they didn't do anything wrong."

 

The two men testified that they had been framed by the police