Observers say the unexpected release of the two Reuters reporters was a political decision timed to save face for the country's civilian leader, after a vigorous international campaign that saw Amal Clooney join their legal team.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were sentenced to seven years in jail in September 2018 under the Official Secrets Act, were released after a presidential amnesty
Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said: "We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters".
Locked up since 2017, the journalists, who received this year's Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, were freed on Tuesday morning after they received a presidential pardon earlier this week
The Supreme Court in Yangon has played to the gallery of the junta ~ and at a pinch, the diplomatically evasive Aung San Suu Kyi as well ~ by rejecting the final appeal of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
The reporters were investigating a massacre of the Rohingya minority in the village of Inn Dinn in Rakhine state.
During her speech at the forum, Suu Kyi admitted to the moderator that the government could have handled the Rakhine crisis better.
Two Reuters reporters who documented a massacre of Rohingya Muslims will face trial for violating the Official Secrets Act after…
