"On 12 December 2017, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on suspicion of violating the 1923 Official Secrets Act almost immediately after meeting police officers at a restaurant in Yangon and being handed documents allegedly linked to security operations in Rakhine State. One of the witnesses for the prosecution, a senior policeman, admitted in court that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to ?trap” the journalists by handing them the classified documents. He was subsequently sentenced to a one-year prison term for violating police discipline. At the time of their arrest, the two had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in September 2017 during military ?clearance operations? in Inn Din Village, Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State..."