Reuters journalists sent to prison

The World

Two journalists with the news agency Reuters have been sentenced to seven years in jail in Myanmar. Their crime was violating Myanmar’s Official Secret Act. They had been working on a story on army atrocities. Host Marco Werman gets reactions from the president and editor-in-chief of Reuters, Stephen Adler.

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