{"id":38135,"date":"2021-10-18T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/myanmar-military-release-5600-anti-coup-prisoners"},"modified":"2021-10-18T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:58:16","slug":"myanmar-military-says-it-will-release-5600-anti-coup-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38135","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military says it will release 5,600 anti-coup prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement follows junta chief being barred from summit over failure to commit to de-escalation<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military has announced plans to release more than 5,000 prisoners, days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/16\/south-east-asian-countries-to-invite-non-political-figure-from-myanmar-to-summit\">junta chief was blocked<\/a> from attending an upcoming regional summit over his failure to commit to de-escalating the country\u2019s crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 5,600 people arrested or subject to arrest warrants for taking part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/myanmar-security-forces-open-fire-on-anti-coup-protesters\">anti-coup protests<\/a> since the military seized power in February would be released, it was announced on state TV on Monday, though it is not clear when they will be freed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/myanmar-military-release-5600-anti-coup-prisoners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement follows junta chief being barred from summit over failure to commit to de-escalationMyanmar\u2019s military has announced plans to release more than 5,000 prisoners, days after the junta chief was blocked from attending an upcoming regional sum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2650,"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-38135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135","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\/2650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38136,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions\/38136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}