{"id":33500,"date":"2021-06-28T01:59:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/27\/us-journalist-says-he-was-tortured-during-detention-in-myanmar"},"modified":"2021-06-28T01:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:59:43","slug":"us-journalist-says-he-was-tortured-during-detention-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33500","title":{"rendered":"US journalist says he was tortured during detention in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Maung says security forces punched, slapped and beat him, and kept him blindfolded for over a week<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s security forces punched, slapped and beat a US journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a week of interrogation, he said after being deported to the United States following more than three months in detention.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Maung, 44, the editor-in-chief of the online news platform Kamayut Media, was detained in a raid on 9 March and freed on 15 June. He said his colleague Hanthar Nyein, who remains in detention, had been tortured more harshly, as had other people he met in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/27\/us-journalist-says-he-was-tortured-during-detention-in-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Maung says security forces punched, slapped and beat him, and kept him blindfolded for over a weekMyanmar\u2019s security forces punched, slapped and beat a US journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a week of interrogation, he said after b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[669,238,82,54,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-myanmar","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","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\/33500","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33501,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33500\/revisions\/33501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}