The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has stepped up the arrests of journalists since going to war in the country’s northern region of Tigray.
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How One Journalist Covered Robert Mugabe’s Rise to Power: Cue the Carrier Pigeons
After the recent death of Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler, we look back at how a former correspondent covered the country’s independence.
Who Was Most Opposed to Freeing 2 Reporters in Myanmar? Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a former prisoner herself, resisted pressure to release the journalists, becoming angry when their case was raised.
Myanmar Releases Reuters Journalists Jailed for Reporting on Rohingya Crackdown
The two reporters, U Wa Lone, 33, and U Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, who received the Pulitzer Prize, were to serve seven years in prison.
Myanmar’s Highest Court Upholds Conviction of Reuters Journalists
The reporters, U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo, won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this month for their reporting on a military massacre of Rohingya Muslims.
Deadly Paris Explosion
A powerful explosion at a bakery in central Paris on Saturday morning killed at least two firefighters and injured 47 people, 10 of them critically.
Myanmar Court Upholds Convictions of Two Reuters Journalists
U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo, who documented mass killings of civilians, were sentenced to seven years in what appears to have been a police setup.