{"id":46719,"date":"2022-07-25T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-state-media"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:04:25","slug":"myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-in-first-such-killings-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46719","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta executes democracy activists in first such killings in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy figures, including former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party, executed after being accused of carrying out \u2018terror acts\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s junta has executed four prisoners including a former politician and a veteran activist, drawing shock and revulsion at the country\u2019s first use of capital punishment in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Junta-controlled media reported on Monday that four men, including Phyo Zeya Thaw, a rapper and former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party, and the prominent democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, known as Jimmy, had been executed. They were accused of conspiring to commit terror acts and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/myanmar-junta-says-execute-pro-democracy-leaders\">were sentenced to death<\/a> in January in closed trials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-state-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy figures, including former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party, executed after being accused of carrying out \u2018terror acts\u2019Myanmar\u2019s junta has executed four prisoners including a former politician and a veteran activist, drawing shock and revu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3190,"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":[1038,82,1906,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-punishment","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-protest","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\/46719","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\/3190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions\/46738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}