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Yangon : Two Reuters reporters were jailed on Monday for seven years for violating a state secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a court said, in the case that has drawn outrage for its attack on media freedom. The two journalists were being tried since 2017 for breaching Myanmar's Official Secrets Act while investigating violence against the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state by the army, the BBC reported. Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on the night of December 12, after meeting with two...