HANOI: Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi says two jailed Reuters journalists can appeal their seven-year sentence and that their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression.
Asked yesterday how she felt about jailing journalists as a democratic leader, Suu Kyi said: “They were not jailed because they were journalists, they were jailed because ... the court decided that they had broken the Official Secrets Act.”
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