{"id":39533,"date":"2021-12-06T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-incitement"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:47:59","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-incitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39533","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in prison for incitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First verdict against Nobel Peace Prize winner and Myanmar\u2019s former leader, who was deposed in a coup in February <\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in prison for incitement and breaking Covid restrictions \u2013 the first verdict to be handed down to Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">the junta seized power in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old has been accused of a series of offences \u2013 from unlawful possession of walkie-talkies to breaches of the Official Secrets Act \u2013 that could amount to decades-long prison sentences. Her lawyer has previously described the cases as \u201cabsurd\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-incitement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First verdict against Nobel Peace Prize winner and Myanmar\u2019s former leader, who was deposed in a coup in February Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in prison for incitement and breaking Covid restrictions \u2013 the first verdict to be hande&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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-39533","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\/39533","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39534,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39533\/revisions\/39534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}