YANGON -- The guilty verdicts and prison sentences delivered here Monday against two Reuters reporters investigating the Rohingya crisis sparked outrage in the international community, which slammed a failure of civil freedoms in Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar.
A district court in Yangon convicted Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo of violating Myanmar's colonial-era Official Secrets Act, sentencing them to seven years in prison.
