AFP, NAYPYIDAWTwo Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar yesterday walked out of prison, freed in a presidential amnesty after a vigorous global campaign — and backroom diplomacy — for their release. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were mobbed by media as they stepped out of Naypyidaw’s Insein Prison after more than 16 months in detention. “I am a journalist and I am going to continue.”“We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters,” Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said. “Since their arrests 511 days ago, they have become symbols of the importance of press freedom around the world. “We are very happy,” Chit Su Win, who is married to Kyaw Soe Oo, told reporters.

Source: Taipei Times May 07, 2019 15:56 UTC