Two journalists jailed in Myanmar for breaking state secrets laws while investigating a Rohingya massacre have been reunited with their families after spending more than 500 days behind bars.
Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were arrested in December 2017 and last September were sentenced to seven years in prison for being breaking a colonial-era Official
Secrets Act. Ahead of their arrests, the reporters had been gathering evidence about the execution of ten men in the village of Inn Din in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State.
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