In April, Police Captain Moe Yan Naing testified that a senior officer had ordered him and his subordinates to offer secret documents to Wa Lone in order to set him up.The arrested journalists were investigating the murder of a dozen Rohingya discovered at Inn Din village in Rakhine, a massacre for which seven Myanmar Army soldiers were later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The Inn Din incident is related to an offensive started by the Myanmar Army on August 25, 2017, which resulted in an exodus of over 700,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh.The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has demanded the release of the two journalists and said the freedom of press has to be respected, an appeal which the European Union, the US and several other international organisations have also joined.
