{"id":60790,"date":"2019-05-07T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=60790"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:41:02","slug":"reuters-reporters-jailed-in-myanmar-freed-after-more-than-500-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/reuters-reporters-jailed-in-myanmar-freed-after-more-than-500-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed after more than 500 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two  Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of  breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the  outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind  bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had \nbeen convicted in September and sentenced to seven years in jail, in a \ncase that raised questions about Myanmar&#8217;s progress toward democracy and\n sparked an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swamped\n by media and well-wishers as they walked through the gates of Insein \nPrison, a grinning Wa Lone gave a thumbs up and said he was grateful for\n the international efforts to secure their freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Win\n Myint has pardoned thousands of other prisoners in mass amnesties since\n last month. It is customary in Myanmar for authorities to free \nprisoners across the country around the time of the traditional New \nYear, which began on April 17. Reuters has said the two men did not \ncommit any crime and had called for their release.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars. The two reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been convicted in September and sentenced to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60792,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60790\/revisions\/60792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}