{"id":31997,"date":"2021-05-11T13:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/myanmar-journalists-and-activists-arrested-in-thailand-after-fleeing-across-border"},"modified":"2021-05-11T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:58:21","slug":"myanmar-journalists-and-activists-arrested-in-thailand-after-fleeing-across-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31997","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar journalists and activists arrested in Thailand after fleeing across border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai foreign correspondents club says the reporters face \u2018certain arrest and persecution\u2019 if deported back to Myanmar<\/p>\n<p>Three journalists and two activists from Myanmar who fled over the border to Thailand have been arrested for illegal entry and could face possible deportation, according to the reporters\u2019 employer.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcaster DVB (Democratic Voice of Burma) said their lives would be \u201cin serious danger\u201d if they were forced back to Myanmar, where the military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">took power in a coup<\/a> on 1 February and has since arrested dozens of journalists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/myanmar-journalists-and-activists-arrested-in-thailand-after-fleeing-across-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai foreign correspondents club says the reporters face \u2018certain arrest and persecution\u2019 if deported back to MyanmarThree journalists and two activists from Myanmar who fled over the border to Thailand have been arrested for illegal entry and could fa&#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":[82,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","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\/31997","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=31997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31997\/revisions\/31998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}