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April 4, 2019updated 30 Sep 2022 7:36am

Jailed Reuters reporters given Amnesty Media Award as they fight conviction

By Charlotte Tobitt

Jailed Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have won yet another award for their work as they continue to fight an appeal against their conviction.

The men, who have been behind bars in Myanmar since December 2017, won the Investigation award at the Amnesty Media Awards held in London last night.

Lone (pictured, left) and Soe Oo (right) were investigating the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State when they were arrested in what they told their trial was a set-up by policemen they had not met before who handed them documents.

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