{"id":21704,"date":"2020-08-15T19:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/thai-king-commutes-myanmar-mens-death-sentence-over-britons"},"modified":"2020-08-15T19:15:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:15:41","slug":"thai-king-commutes-myanmar-mens-death-sentence-over-britons-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21704","title":{"rendered":"Thai king commutes Myanmar men&#8217;s death sentence over Britons&#8217; murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of killing Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Two men on death row for the murder of a pair of British backpackers in Thailand have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment after a mass royal pardon.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s lawyer, Nadthasiri Bergman, said the pardon decree \u2013 which was published on Friday and applies to all inmates on death row \u2013 was effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/thai-king-commutes-myanmar-mens-death-sentence-over-britons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of killing Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in 2014Two men on death row for the murder of a pair of British backpackers in Thailand have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment after a mass royal pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,93,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-thailand","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704\/revisions\/21705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}