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Brickbat: Burma Shaved

Charles Oliver | 9.14.2018 4:00 AM

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A Myanmar judge has sentenced two journalists to seven years in prison each for violating the state secrets law. The two had been reporting on the killing by government security forces of Rohingya Muslim villagers.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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