{"id":28557,"date":"2021-02-17T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/suu-kyi-myanmar-trial-protests-military"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:53:04","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-trial-in-myanmar-begins-in-secret-amid-warning-of-fresh-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28557","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi trial in Myanmar begins in secret amid warning of fresh protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court case begins a day early, without the knowledge of her lawyer and with fresh charges<\/p>\n<p>The trial in Myanmar of Aung San Suu Kyi appears to have secretly begun a day early, without the knowledge or presence of her lawyer, shortly after the military regime filed a new charge against the deposed leader.<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s special rapporteur Tom Andrews said he understood a \u201csecretive trial\u201d had already started and that a combination of expected mass protests on Wednesday and reports of large troop movements meant the military \u201ccould be on the precipice of \u2026 committing even greater crimes against the people of Myanmar\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/suu-kyi-myanmar-trial-protests-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court case begins a day early, without the knowledge of her lawyer and with fresh chargesThe trial in Myanmar of Aung San Suu Kyi appears to have secretly begun a day early, without the knowledge or presence of her lawyer, shortly after the military re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[919,82,80,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28557","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28559,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28557\/revisions\/28559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}