The journalists had been jailed and sentenced to seven years in prison after working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
“I hope it can be the start of a new chapter in our relations with Myanmar, if, following this, we can also have the same kind of openness about the issues in Rakhine province for the Rohingyas.” But Hunt said Myanmar needed to address the substance of reported atrocities of the kind that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating, adding that the United Nations had highlighted concern over events in Rakhine State.
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