VIDEO: British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Clooney announces she will represent two Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar in a case that has incensed global opinion pic.twitter.com/BG5nzsFcqK
— AFP news agency (@AFP) 30 marca 2018
- two Reuters reporters (Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo) were jailed in Myanmar,
- they are accused of possessing secret government papers,
- a court in Yangon has been holding preliminary hearings since January to decide whether they will be charged under the colonial-era Officials Secrets Act (which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison),
- lawyers for the two reporters on Wednesday asked the court to throw out the case,
- Amal's oggice announced she will be joining the team of lawyers,
- reporters were investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in western Myanmar’s Rakhine.
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