{"id":48129,"date":"2022-09-02T19:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T10:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/ex-uk-ambassador-husband-jailed-year-myanmar-reports-vicky-bowman-htein-lin"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T10:17:01","slug":"ex-uk-ambassador-and-her-husband-jailed-for-a-year-in-myanmar-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48129","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UK ambassador and her husband jailed for a year in Myanmar, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vicky Bowman and Htein Lin were arrested last week accused of violating immigration laws<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s former ambassador to Myanmar and her husband, a prominent artist, have been sentenced to one year in prison by the country\u2019s military-controlled courts, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Vicky Bowman, who was the ambassador in Myanmar from 2002 to 2006, and her husband, Htein Lin, a veteran democracy activist, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/25\/uk-former-myanmar-ambassador-arrested-yangon-report-vicky-bowman\">arrested last week<\/a> in Yangon and accused of violating immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/ex-uk-ambassador-husband-jailed-year-myanmar-reports-vicky-bowman-htein-lin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicky Bowman and Htein Lin were arrested last week accused of violating immigration lawsBritain\u2019s former ambassador to Myanmar and her husband, a prominent artist, have been sentenced to one year in prison by the country\u2019s military-controlled courts, r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[319,82,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-myanmar","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","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\/48129","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48130,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48129\/revisions\/48130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}