{"id":38939,"date":"2021-11-15T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/us-journalist-danny-fenster-released-from-prison-in-myanmar"},"modified":"2021-11-15T21:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:42:54","slug":"us-journalist-danny-fenster-released-from-prison-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38939","title":{"rendered":"US journalist Danny Fenster released from prison in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fenster\u2019s employer says he is flying out of the country, days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail<\/p>\n<p>The US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in military-ruled Myanmar, just days after a closed court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/myanmar-junta-jails-us-journalist-danny-fenster-for-11-years\">sentenced him to 11 years in jail<\/a> for a series of charges including incitement and visa violations.<\/p>\n<p>Fenster\u2019s employer, Frontier Myanmar, an independent outlet, said on Monday afternoon that he had been released and was on a flight out of the country. Fenster, 37, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/25\/myanmar-us-journalist-detained-yangon-media-danny-fenster\">arrested in May 2021<\/a> at Yangon international airport as he tried to fly back home to Michigan. He had spent five and a half months in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/us-journalist-danny-fenster-released-from-prison-in-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fenster\u2019s employer says he is flying out of the country, days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jailThe US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in military-ruled Myanmar, just days after a closed court sentenced him to 11 years in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[669,238,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalist-safety","category-media","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\/38939","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38954,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939\/revisions\/38954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}