CAMEROON, Cameroon — Human Rights attorney Amal Clooney, who is representing two journalists from Reuters news agency sentenced to hard labour after they uncovered a military massacre, urged Myanmar leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday to immediately pardon the reporters and reverse a miscarriage of justice. Clooney said the reporters were arrested in an attempt by Myanmar to keep Reuters from publishing a story on the extrajudicial killings of 10 Rohingya men and boys. She said their families have asked the government for the pardon, which would have to be granted by the country’s president in consultation with Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi has rejected criticism over the show-trial conviction earlier this month. “The case has been held in open court,” Suu Kyi said.

Source: National Post September 28, 2018 22:07 UTC