Myanmar media repression deepens despite release of Reuters pair

Aung San Suu Kyi's government has failed to nurture greater press freedom

20190513 Freed Myanmar Reuters jounalists

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo walk to the gate at Insein Prison in Yangon on May 7 after being freed as part of a mass amnesty. © Reuters

DOMINIC FAULDER, Associate editor, Nikkei Asian Review

May 14, 2019 12:53 JST

BANGKOK -- There was widespread jubilation last week when two imprisoned Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were unexpectedly included among 6,520 prisoners released in a mass amnesty in Myanmar, but observers say the country's press situation remains deeply troubled.