{"id":33012,"date":"2021-06-12T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyi-trial-looms"},"modified":"2021-06-12T00:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:30:48","slug":"un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyis-trial-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33012","title":{"rendered":"UN decries Myanmar \u2018catastrophe\u2019 as Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s trial looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights commissioner says junta is \u2018singularly responsible for crisis\u2019 before ousted leader\u2019s trial<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar has descended into a \u201chuman rights catastrophe\u201d, the UN\u2019s top human rights official has warned in the run-up to the scheduled start of the trial of the country\u2019s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who faces criminal charges that could lead to decades in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi, who previously spent a total of 15 years in detention at the behest of Myanmar\u2019s generals and is widely revered domestically as a symbol of the country\u2019s yearning for democracy, is expected to appear in court in Naypyidaw on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyi-trial-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights commissioner says junta is \u2018singularly responsible for crisis\u2019 before ousted leader\u2019s trialMyanmar has descended into a \u201chuman rights catastrophe\u201d, the UN\u2019s top human rights official has warned in the run-up to the scheduled start of the t&#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":[919,53,82,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","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\/33012","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=33012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33012\/revisions\/33013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}