Well-known human rights attorney Amal Clooney has said she will join the legal team representing two Reuters journalists confined in Myanmar.

She said ” it is clear beyond doubt ” that Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone were innocent and called for their their quick release.

The two journalists are blamed for damaging Myanmar’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act while investigating the Rohingya emergency.

They look up to 14 years in jail.

‘Arrested for reporting’

“The outcome of this case will tell us a lot about Myanmar’s commitment to the rule of law and freedom of speech,” Ms. Clooney said in a statement.

“Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are being prosecuted simply because they reported the news,” she said.

Reuters says the two were captured in light of the fact that they had been researching a mass execution of Rohingyas by villagers and soldiers.

Reuters’ chief counsel Gail Gove said that “retaining Ms. Clooney greatly strengthens our international legal expertise and allows us to broaden those efforts”.

She said they would “pursue all avenues to secure our reporters’ release”.

Ms. Clooney, a British-Lebanese counselor wedded to Hollywood starGeorge Clooney, is known for going up against prominent human rights cases.

In 2015, she was a member of the legal group working towards the arrival of two Al Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt.

All the more as of late, she spoke to Nadia Murad – a Nobel Peace Prize candidate who was caught and tormented by IS.