Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo to receive 2019 World Press Freedom Prize
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo to receive 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize
Journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone (Myanmar)
will share this year’s UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize.
Both laureates are serving seven-year prison sentences. At the time
of their arrest in Yangon on 12 December 2017, they were working for the Reuters news agency, reporting on alleged human rights violations in Myanmar’s state of Rakhine.
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
Journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone (Myanmar)
will share this year’s UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize.
Both laureates are serving seven-year prison sentences. At the time
of their arrest in Yangon on 12 December 2017, they were working for the Reuters news agency, reporting on alleged human rights violations in Myanmar’s state of Rakhine.
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
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