{"id":46729,"date":"2022-07-25T17:35:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/executed-myanmar-activist-visited-australia-in-2012-to-complete-a-political-advisers-course"},"modified":"2022-07-25T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:35:14","slug":"executed-myanmar-activist-visited-australia-in-2012-to-complete-a-political-advisers-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46729","title":{"rendered":"Executed Myanmar activist visited Australia in 2012 to complete a political advisers\u2019 course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phyo Zeya Thaw met then prime minister Julia Gillard when he was brought to Australia by AusAid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/jul\/25\/anthony-albanese-47th-parliament-climate-trigger-covid-wave-adf-aged-care-murray-watt-foot-and-mouth-disease\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phyo Zeya Thaw hadn\u2019t been out of jail long when he came to Australia to do a political advisers\u2019 course 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar hip-hop artist turned politician \u2013 who eventually turned hip-hop artist again \u2013 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-state-media\">one of four people executed <\/a>by the military junta following accusations of terror acts that many considered unfounded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/25\/executed-myanmar-activist-visited-australia-in-2012-to-complete-a-political-advisers-course\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phyo Zeya Thaw met then prime minister Julia Gillard when he was brought to Australia by AusAidFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastPhyo Zeya Thaw hadn\u2019t been out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"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":[43,1038,82,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-capital-punishment","category-myanmar","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\/46729","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\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46729\/revisions\/46730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}