Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
- Written by Kyle Springer, Senior Analyst at the Perth USAsia Centre, University of Western Australia
Myanmar’s president released more than 6,000 prisoners on Tuesday, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists imprisoned for reporting on a military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who work for the news organisation Reuters, were arrested in 2017 and, after a corrupt trial engineered...
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