Myanmar's top court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters journalists
by David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2019
2 minutes
SINGAPORE - Myanmar's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the verdicts of two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists for Reuters who were jailed while reporting on the country's violent suppression of Rohingya Muslims.
Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, have been imprisoned since December 2017 and are serving seven-year terms for violating an obscure colonial-era
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