On Monday, the lawyers of two Reuters reporters accused in Myanmar of possessing secret documents, suggested that the reporters were subjected to sleep deprivation during police interrogations. Captain Myint Lwin, the officer in charge of the Yangon police station that conducted the preliminary inquiry after the pair were arrested, denied the reporters were deprived of sleep or made to kneel. Defense lawyers called the treatment "mental and physical torture," adding that evidence gathered through such methods was unlawful.