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Wa Lone

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Reuters reporter Wa Lone was a 2018 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award Honoree. He was arrested in December 2017 with his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo after they covered a massacre in Rakhine State. Both writers received seven-year prison sentences in 2018 for allegedly obtaining state secrets. Though their sentences were repeatedly upheld in 2019, they were ultimately released via an amnesty on May 6, 2019.