On Monday 9 July, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service called for the charges to be dropped against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Ook, two Burmese journalists from the news agency Reuters. The spokesperson also called for the two journalists' immediate release as they have been "prosecuted for merely exercising their rights to freedom of expression and carrying out their jobs".
In a press release, the spokesperson said the court decision, taken earlier in the day to...