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Myanmar Sentences Policeman who Testified Reuters Reporters were Framed
Myanmar Sentences Policeman who Testified Reuters Reporters were Framed
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May 1, 2018

Myanmar Sentences Policeman who Testified Reuters Reporters were Framed

(Reuters) – A police officer who testified that police framed two Reuters reporters has been sentenced to an undisclosed prison term for violating Myanmar’s Police Disciplinary Act, a police spokesman told Reuters on Sunday, without elaborating.

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At the time of their arrest, the reporters had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The killings took place during an army crackdown that United Nations agencies say has sent nearly 700,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh.

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