Arakan News Agency
The Myanmar authorities on Monday continued the trial of Reuters journalists, most notably the journalist Wa Lon and Kyaw Su, who has been in police custody for a year.
The testimony of journalists is being held today in Yangon, Myanmar.
The most prominent charges involving Reuters journalists are the violation of Myanmar’s colonial-era official secret code before a court, with more witnesses being prosecuted.
The two journalists worked in Reuters coverage of the Muslim Rohingya crisis, estimated by the United Nations to have some 655,000 of them fleeing a fierce military campaign in the western state of Arakan.
The two journalists were arrested on Dec. 12 after receiving an invitation to meet police officers at dinner in Yangon and told relatives that they were arrested as soon as the officers who had gone to meet them delivered some documents.
At the previous court hearing on Jan. 23, First Witness Lieutenant Colonel Yu Naung said the journalists were arrested as they were walking along a road, along with four official documents including a list of troops and weapons in a police battalion in Maungdaw district of Arakan.
