{"id":29100,"date":"2021-03-01T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-faces-third-charge-as-myanmar-junta-cracks-down-on-dissent"},"modified":"2021-03-02T00:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:37:48","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-faces-four-charges-as-myanmar-junta-cracks-down-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29100","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi faces four charges as Myanmar junta cracks down on dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted leader, not seen in public since last month\u2019s military coup, appears in court via video link<\/p>\n<p>A court in Myanmar has announced two new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi, including one of sharing information \u201ccausing fear or alarm\u201d, as the police and military stalked the streets and rounded up protesters in the country\u2019s biggest city, Yangon<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A day after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/28\/myanmar-protesters-clash-police-grenades-democracy-junta-fires-outspoken-un-envoy\">bloodiest crackdown on anti-coup protesters<\/a> since the military seized power, security forces used teargas and stun grenades to disperse crowds that continued to gather in Yangon. Officers went door-to-door on side streets, raiding homes to search for people suspected of taking part in rallies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-faces-third-charge-as-myanmar-junta-cracks-down-on-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted leader, not seen in public since last month\u2019s military coup, appears in court via video linkA court in Myanmar has announced two new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi, including one of sharing information \u201ccausing fear or alarm\u201d, as the police an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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-29100","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\/29100","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29122,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100\/revisions\/29122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}