{"id":29469,"date":"2021-03-09T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/08\/myanmar-un-chief-urges-release-of-trapped-protesters"},"modified":"2021-03-09T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:14:30","slug":"myanmar-protesters-allowed-to-leave-apartments-after-being-trapped-by-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29469","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: protesters allowed to leave apartments after being trapped by military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres had called for security forces to release hundreds of people \u2018without violence or arrests\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of peaceful anti-coup protesters have been allowed to leave an area of Yangon where they were cornered in apartment buildings by Myanmar security forces. <\/p>\n<p>The south-east Asian country has been in turmoil since a 1 February coup ousted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-faces-third-charge-as-myanmar-junta-cracks-down-on-dissent\">civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a> and triggered mass protests against the new military junta.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/08\/myanmar-un-chief-urges-release-of-trapped-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres had called for security forces to release hundreds of people \u2018without violence or arrests\u2019 Hundreds of peaceful anti-coup protesters have been allowed to leave an area of Yangon where they were cornered in apartment buildings &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1991,"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":[82,61,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29469","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\/1991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29471,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29469\/revisions\/29471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}