- The United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO has awarded its annual press freedom ‘Guillermo Cano prize’ to two Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, jailed in Myanmar over their reporting on the killings of Rohingya Muslims in the country.
- They have been behind bars since December 2017, detained on claims of violating state secrets.
As per the UNESCO, they were arrested because they documented a taboo topic regarding crimes committed against Rohingyas. - The Guillermo Cano prize, named for a Colombian journalist gunned down in Bogota in 1986, will be awarded on May 2 at a ceremony in Ethiopia on the eve of World Press Freedom Day.
- At the time of their arrest the reporters were probing the extrajudicial killing of 10 Rohingya men at Inn Din village in northern Rakhine state.
