Myanmar’s High Court has rejected an appeal by two Reuters journalists against their seven-year prison sentence handed down after they were found guilty of breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act.

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested while reporting on the massacre of ten men in Rakhine by Burmese troops and villagers.

They were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act in June 2018, despite the court hearing testimony from one police officer who said the pair were set up in a “trap” to arrest them. He was also later jailed.