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Two journalists sentenced in Burma

A Myanmar court sentenced seven local journalists from the Reuters agency to seven years imprisonment for violating the law of official secrets while investigating a Rohingya massacre. The reporters were arrested last December after having held a meeting with two police officers who, according to the defendants, handed over allegedly confidential documents.

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