Two Reuters journalists are to launch an appeal against their seven years conviction under the State Secrets Act earlier this year. The appeal of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo will be launched ahead of the November 3 deadline, says their lawyer Khin Maung Zaw. “Everything is ready,” the lawyer, told the news wire. “I’m quite confident. But in our country, nothing is certain. Anything can happen”. The appeal will be submitted to the High Court, which could take at least six months. According to the article, the reporters will appeal to Myanmar’s Supreme Court, if the regional court rejected. The journalists were arrested last December, while they were investigating the army-led crackdown in Rakhine State last year. Their trial and sentencing was met with large-scale international condemnation, and was regarded by critics as an attack on media freedom, and an attempt to silence investigative reporting on the Rakhine crackdown.
