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They had pleaded not guilty, contending that they were framed by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial has taken an enormous toll on Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo\u2019s young families. Kyaw Soe Oo\u2019s wife, Chit Su Win, moved to Yangon with their 3-year-old daughter to attend the hearings, while Wa Lone has yet to see his daughter, who was born just three weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were originally detained in December 2017 after working on an investigation into the mass killing of a number of Rohingya villagers in Myanmar&#8217;s Rakhine state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:\u00a0Two Reuters journalists accused of breaking Myanmar&#8217;s Official Secrets Act have been found guilty and sentenced to seven years each in jail, a Yangon court has decided.\u00a0Today is a sad day for\u00a0Myanmar, Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and the press everywhere,&#8221; Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler said in\u00a0a statement, commenting on\u00a0the verdict. 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