{"id":38809,"date":"2021-11-11T02:13:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/danny-fenster-us-journalist-myanmar-terrorism-sedition"},"modified":"2021-11-11T02:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:13:16","slug":"us-journalist-held-in-myanmar-charged-with-terrorism-and-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38809","title":{"rendered":"US journalist held in Myanmar charged with terrorism and sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh charges for Danny Fenster, arrested in May as part of crackdown by junta, carry maximum sentence of life in prison<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The military has squeezed the press since taking power in a February coup, arresting dozens of journalists critical of its crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 1,200 people, according to a local monitoring group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/danny-fenster-us-journalist-myanmar-terrorism-sedition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh charges for Danny Fenster, arrested in May as part of crackdown by junta, carry maximum sentence of life in prisonMyanmar\u2019s junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1998,"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":[238,82,54,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/38809","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\/1998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions\/38810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}