{"id":30111,"date":"2021-03-24T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T07:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/myanmar-military-releases-600-coup-protesters-as-silence-strike-begins"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T07:07:43","slug":"myanmar-military-releases-600-coup-protesters-as-silence-strike-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30111","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military releases 600 coup protesters as &#8216;silence strike&#8217; begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busloads of mostly young people seen leaving Insein Prison in Yangon, some making three-finger salutes<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people imprisoned for protesting last month\u2019s coup have been released in the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the protest movement.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses outside Insein Prison in Yangon saw busloads of mostly young people, looking happy with some flashing the three-finger gesture of defiance adopted by the protest movement. State-run TV said a total of 628 were freed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/myanmar-military-releases-600-coup-protesters-as-silence-strike-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busloads of mostly young people seen leaving Insein Prison in Yangon, some making three-finger salutesHundreds of people imprisoned for protesting last month\u2019s coup have been released in the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/30111","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30112,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111\/revisions\/30112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}