Portal:Current events/2019 May 7
May 7, 2019 (Tuesday)
Law and crime
- Myanmar President Win Myint pardons two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who had been imprisoned at Insein Prison for more than 500 days after being charged with possession of classified documents under the Official Secrets Act. The pair were arrested in December 2017 after they investigated the Inn Din massacre. (Reuters)
- Michael Behenna, an American soldier convicted of killing and Iraqi prisoner in 2008, is pardoned by U.S. president Donald Trump (NPR)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Danish general election
- Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen calls general elections for Grundlovsdag on 5 June, only a little more than a week after Danish elections for the European Parliament. (The Local)