Curtailing Free Expression, Opinion and Information Online in Southeast Asia standards, which require that public authorities adequately demonstrate the legitimacy of any restriction of information, that the process of classification of information be made public, and that information be restricted only “as long as necessary” to protect a legitimate security interest.346 Case of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo In December 2017, Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in northern Yangon under section 3 of the ISA, following investigative work and reporting the journalists had engaged in to uncover human rights violations committed by the Myanmar military’s security forces in Rakhine state.347 Their report documenting the military’s killing of ten Rohingya men in Inn Dinn village was published online on Reuters news website on 8 February 2018.348 Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were detained incommunicado for nearly two weeks before charges were brought against them.349 In April 2018, police officer Capt. Moe Yan Naing testified during pre-trial hearings that he had been instructed to ‘frame’ the journalists by planting on them documents related to security operations in Rakhine state.350 In July 2018, Yangon Northern District Court made a decision to extend the journalists’ detention term, even as ICJ Legal Advisers monitoring the case noted that through six months of hearings, the prosecution had failed to provide credible evidence to substantiate a conviction.351 In September 2018, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were convicted and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment.352 346 Tshwane Principles, Principles 4, 11, 16. 347 The Irrawaddy, ‘Reuters Reports Arrested in Yangon Under Official Secrets Act’, 13 December 2017, https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/breaking-reuters-reporters-arrested-yangonofficial-secrets-act.html; See ICJ, ‘Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar: respect their rights, end their incommunicado detention’, 18 December 2017, Available at: https://www.icj.org/reutersjournalists-detained-in-myanmar-respect-their-rights-end-their-incommunicado-detention/ 348 Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis, Antoni Slodkowski, ‘Reuters Special Report: Massacre in Myanmar’, Filed 8 February 2018, Available at: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/specialreport/myanmar-rakhine-events/ 349 ICJ, ‘Myanmar: Reuters convictions a massive blow to the rule of law’, 3 September 2018, Available at: https://www.icj.org/myanmar-reuters-convictions-a-massive-blow-to-the-rule-of-law/ 350 Capt. Moe Yan Naing thereafter was sentenced to one year in prison under the Police Disciplinary Act and his family evicted from the police dormitory in which they had been living. See Eli Meixler, ‘Myanmar Police Officer Who Said That Detained Reuters Reporters Were Set Up Has Been Jailed’, TIME, 30 April 2018, Available at: https://time.com/5259232/myanmar-jail-police-whistleblowerreuters-reporters/ 351 ICJ, ‘Myanmar: officials must drop charges against Reuters journalists’, 9 July 2018, Available at: https://www.icj.org/myanmar-officials-must-drop-charges-against-reuters-journalists/ 352 Kyaw Phyo Tha, ‘Calls Mount for Official Secrets Act to Be Amended in Wake of Reuters Case’, 95