Myanmar frees two Reuters journalists after global outrage.
Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison on Tuesday, freed in a presidential amnesty after a vigorous global campaign for their release.
Wa Lone, 33, thanked people from"around the world" for advocating for their release and vowed he would return to work.Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said:"We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters". At the time of their arrest, they had been reporting on a September 2017 massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslims in conflict-hit Rakhine state, where the Myanmar army forced some 740,000 of the stateless minority to flee over the border to Bangladesh.
"We are very happy," Chit Su Win, who is married to Kyaw Soe Oo, told AFP. A reunion photo of both couples celebrating, smiling and holding each of their daughters was widely shared on Twitter. The now-former officer Moe Yan Naing told AFP he was"delighted" the families were back together, and expressed interest in meeting the journalists if they wanted to.
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