For jailed Reuters journalists in Myanmar, freedom was blocked by former prisoner

May 11, 2019 10:58 AM

BANGKOK (NYTIMES) – The biggest obstacle to releasing two imprisoned Reuters reporters in Myanmar was not the country’s military, diplomats and others say, but its de facto civilian leader: Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and former political prisoner herself who once declared, “Please use your liberty to promote ours.”

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