STATEMENT ON CONTINUED DETENTION OF REUTERS JOURNALISTS

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U.S. EMBASSY STATEMENT ON CONTINUED DETENTION OF REUTERS JOURNALISTS

 

We are deeply disappointed that Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo remain in detention today. They have been jailed for doing their jobs as journalists. While the conviction announced yesterday of the soldiers responsible for the Inn Din massacre was an encouraging sign, it merely underscores that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who sought to expose that crime, should be free.‎ We renew our call for their immediate release.

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ရုိက္တာသတင္းေထာက္မ်ားကုိ ဆက္လက္ဖမ္းဆီးထားျခင္းႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ အေမရိကန္သံရုံး၏ေၾကညာခ်က္

ရုိက္တာသတင္းေထာက္ ကုိဝလုံးႏွင့္ ကုိေက်ာ္စုိးဦးတုိ႔ကုိ ယေန႔ဆက္လက္ ဖမ္းဆီးထားျခင္းအတြက္ မိမိတုိ႔ မ်ားစြာစိတ္ပ်က္မိပါသည္။ သူတုိ႔သည္ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ၎တုိ႔အလုပ္ကုိေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကရင္း ဖမ္းဆီးခံရျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အင္းဒင္ လူအစုလုိက္ သတ္ျဖတ္ခံရျခင္းအတြက္ တာဝန္ရွိစစ္သည္မ်ားကုိ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္ေၾကာင္း ယမန္ေန႔က ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္သည္ စိတ္အားတက္ဖြယ္ရာ လကၡဏာျဖစ္ၿပီး ယင္းက ရာဇဝတ္မႈကုိ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ရန္ႀကဳိးပမ္းခဲ့သည့္ ကုိဝလုံးႏွင့္ ကုိေက်ာ္စုိးဦးတုိ႔ ႏွစ္ဦးလည္း ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေျမာက္သင့္ေၾကာင္း ထင္ရွားေနပါသည္။ သူတုိ႔ႏွစ္ဦးကုိ အျမန္ဆုံးလႊတ္ေပးရန္ ထပ္မံ ေတာင္းဆုိပါသည္။