{"id":39695,"date":"2021-12-11T02:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/aung-san-suu-kyis-trial-has-been-a-farce"},"modified":"2021-12-11T02:20:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:20:06","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyis-trial-has-been-a-farce-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39695","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s trial has been a farce | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family of Myanmar\u2019s ousted civilian leader react to her jailing at the hands of the ruling junta<\/p>\n<p>We, the friends and relations of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in England, would like to applaud the Guardian for your article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-incitement\" title=\"\">Myanmar\u2019s junta condemned over guilty verdicts in Aung San Suu Kyi trial, 6 December<\/a>). We cannot remain silent any longer about the situation there and that of Daw Suu in particular. Since the illegal coup on 1 February by the military, all the progress achieved under the National League for Democracy has been undone, leaving the country close to complete collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The farcical nature of the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi is reminiscent of a Whitehall comedy. She has been convicted of \u201cincitement\u201d, when her only offence was to oppose obedience to the illegal regime while she herself was gagged and held incommunicado in an unknown place of detention. This trial was judged fair by the army spokesman, who needs to be asked why the hearings had to be held in secret, with her lawyers banned from any reporting of proceedings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/aung-san-suu-kyis-trial-has-been-a-farce\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family of Myanmar\u2019s ousted civilian leader react to her jailing at the hands of the ruling juntaWe, the friends and relations of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in England, would like to applaud the Guardian for your article (Myanmar\u2019s junta condemned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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-39695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","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\/39695","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39696,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39695\/revisions\/39696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}