{"id":40492,"date":"2022-01-10T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T05:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/aun-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-walkie-talkie-and-covid-rule-breaches"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:49:05","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-walkie-talkie-and-covid-rule-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40492","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi handed four-year jail term in military \u2018courtroom circus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say series of charges over Covid rules and walkie-talkie possession designed to remove her as political threat<\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi has been handed a four-year jail sentence by a military court in Myanmar over various offences, including illegal possession of walkie-talkies, the latest judgment in a series of cases that could lead to her spending the rest of her life in detention.<\/p>\n<p>She has been held by the military since 1 February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">when it ousted her democratically elected government<\/a>, plunging the country into chaos. The 76-year-old has since been targeted with a slew of charges that her lawyer has previously described as absurd.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/10\/aun-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-walkie-talkie-and-covid-rule-breaches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say series of charges over Covid rules and walkie-talkie possession designed to remove her as political threatAung San Suu Kyi has been handed a four-year jail sentence by a military court in Myanmar over various offences, including illegal pos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-40492","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\/40492","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions\/40515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}