Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo is escorted by police as he holds his daughter
A court in Yangon, Myanmar has been holding hearings since January to decide whether the journalists will be charged under the colonial-era Officials Secrets Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will be representing the two Reuters journalists now in pre-trial detention in Myanmar, her office said Thursday.
Clooney said in a statement on Thursday that the reporters are being prosecuted "simply because they reported the news". Their case file indicates they should be released immediately, she argued.
The reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested late a year ago while working on stories about the Muslim minority population in Rakhine state.
'The outcome of this case will tell us a lot about Myanmar's commitment to the rule of law and freedom of speech'.
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They were investigating the murders of 10 Muslim Rohingya men found in a mass grave following military violence the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. Their findings were part of a groundbreaking report on the massacre, which Reuters published in February.
They had been investigating the killing by security forces and ethnic Rakhine locals of 10 unarmed Rohingya Muslim men in the country's crisis-hit northern Rakhine State.
"The Reuters investigation of the Inn Din massacre was what prompted Myanmar police authorities to arrest two of the news agency's reporters", the story stated.
Gail Gove, legal chief at Reuters, said Ms Clooney would strengthen the company's global legal expertise and broaden efforts to secure the reporters' release.
The Reuters journalists were arrested in Yangon on December 12 nearly immediately after they were handed documents by police who had invited them to dinner, according to the defense lawyers. "Retaining Ms Clooney greatly strengthens out worldwide legal expertise and allows us to broaden those efforts".
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