EU urges Myanmar to release Reuters journalists

They face 14 years behind bars for illegally acquiring information to share with foreign media.

The European Union is calling on Myanmar to release two Reuters journalists who had been covering the alleged military atrocities against the minority Rohingya community. Wa Lone and Chore Soy-Oo were arrested last month.

They face 14 years behind bars for illegally acquiring information to share with foreign media.

Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports.