"Two Reutersjournalister as in close to a year and a half has been imprisoned in Myanmar has, together with over 6 500 other prisoners are released, according to witnesses."
"the Country's president Win Myint pardoned thousands of prisoners in two massamnestier last month. It is tradition that the authorities in Myanmar to release prisoners at the new year, which this year occurred on the 17th of april, and several thousand people were freed also."
"The two Reutersjournalisterna Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo was arrested in december 2017. They were sentenced in september last year to seven years in prison for having violated a law on state secrets after having received the secret documents in connection with an examination of a mass murder of men and boys from the muslim rohingya population in Rakhine state."
"the Verdict has received harsh criticism from a number of countries, and human rights defenders."