This latest hearing came a day after literary rights group PEN America announced it was presenting the Reuters reporters with its Freedom to Write Award.
Day: February 14, 2018
Charges dropped for man in Arakan Army Cup ‘unlawful association’ case
One of three defendants in an unusual “unlawful association” case involving a football tournament organised last year in honour of the Arakan Army was allowed to walk free on Wednesday.
US-based advocacy group honours Reuters journalists imprisoned in Burma
PEN America, a New York-based literary and human rights advocacy group, will confer its PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award on the two Reuters reporters arrested by Burmese authorities in December.
US urges UN to hold Burmese military accountable for ‘ethnic cleansing’
The United States on Tuesday described Burma’s denials of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims as “preposterous” as it called on the UN Security Council to hold the military accountable and…