{"id":33062,"date":"2021-06-14T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/trial-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar"},"modified":"2021-06-14T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:12:38","slug":"trial-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-begin-in-myanmar-after-military-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33062","title":{"rendered":"Trial of Aung San Suu Kyi begins in closed courtoom in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No media in court and heavy police presence outside as former leader faces raft of charges<\/p>\n<p>The trial of Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi began on Monday in a closed courtroom in Naypyidaw, as the military junta escalated its attempts to remove her as a political threat.<\/p>\n<p>No journalists were present at the hearing inside the Naypyidaw council compound, where there was a heavy police presence. The defence lawyer Khin Maung Zaw said Aung San Suu Kyi \u201cseemed not very well\u201d in court, but that throughout the hearing \u201cshe seemed quite interested and paid keen attention.\u201d She has toothache, according to her lawyers, who were escorted to the courtroom by police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/trial-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No media in court and heavy police presence outside as former leader faces raft of chargesThe trial of Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi began on Monday in a closed courtroom in Naypyidaw, as the military junta escalated its attempts to remove h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-33062","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\/33062","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33103,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33062\/revisions\/33103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}