(CNN) The wives of the two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in prison in Myanmar have made a public appeal to the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to help reunite their families, amid international condemnation of the government's treatment of the two men.

Speaking at a press conference in Yangon Tuesday, Chit Su Win, the wife of the reporter Kyaw Soe Oo, broke down in tears as she insisted her husband was innocent.

She said the two men "were just doing their jobs as reporters," and that her husband "was a good citizen who hadn't committed any wrongdoing."

Kyaw Soe Oo, 28 and Wa Lone, 32, were sentenced to seven years with hard labor on Monday after they were found guilty of breaking the Official Secrets Act while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims.

Addressing Suu Kyi directly, Wa Lone's wife, Pan Ei Mon, said that she felt let down by the Nobel laureate.

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