{"id":27921,"date":"2021-02-06T15:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T06:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/myanmar-australian-adviser-to-aung-san-suu-kyi-sean-turnell-being-detained"},"modified":"2021-02-06T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T06:06:43","slug":"myanmar-australian-adviser-to-aung-san-suu-kyi-sean-turnell-being-detained-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27921","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: Australian adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, Sean Turnell, &#8216;being detained&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economist from Macquarie University tells Reuters news agency \u2018I am fine and strong and not guilty of anything\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sean Turnell, an Australian economic adviser to Myanmar\u2019s Aung San Suu Kyi, has told the news agency Reuters that he is being detained, days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">the Burmese leader was arrested in a military coup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess you will soon hear of it, but I am being detained,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing charged with something, but not sure what. I am fine and strong, and not guilty of anything,\u201d he said in a message, with a smile emoji. It was not subsequently possible to contact him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/myanmar-australian-adviser-to-aung-san-suu-kyi-sean-turnell-being-detained\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist from Macquarie University tells Reuters news agency \u2018I am fine and strong and not guilty of anything\u2019Sean Turnell, an Australian economic adviser to Myanmar\u2019s Aung San Suu Kyi, has told the news agency Reuters that he is being detained, days &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1890,"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":[919,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921","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\/1890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions\/27923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}