{"id":45145,"date":"2022-06-04T01:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T16:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/myanmar-junta-says-execute-pro-democracy-leaders"},"modified":"2022-06-04T01:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T16:05:22","slug":"myanmar-junta-says-it-will-execute-two-prominent-pro-democracy-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45145","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta says it will execute two prominent pro-democracy leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people including ex-MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy to be put to death<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s junta has said it will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country\u2019s first judicial executions since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Four people, including the former MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and the democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Ko Jimmy, \u201cwill be hanged according to prison procedures,\u201d Zaw Min Tun told AFP on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/myanmar-junta-says-execute-pro-democracy-leaders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people including ex-MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy to be put to deathMyanmar\u2019s junta has said it will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"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":[919,1038,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-capital-punishment","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\/45145","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\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45145\/revisions\/45146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}