{"id":48934,"date":"2022-09-29T13:49:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/australian-academic-sean-turnell-sentenced-to-three-years-after-secret-trial-in-myanmar"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:49:59","slug":"australian-academic-sean-turnell-sentenced-to-three-years-jail-after-secret-trial-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48934","title":{"rendered":"Australian academic Sean Turnell sentenced to three years\u2019 jail after secret trial in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic adviser to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was accused by military leaders of having confidential papers<\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi and the Australian academic Sean Turnell who served as her advisor have been sentenced to three years in prison after a closed trial in Myanmar, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Turnell, an economist at Sydney\u2019s Macquarie University, was first detained last year on 6 February, a few days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/02\/myanmar-coup-military-tightens-grip-amid-calls-for-suu-kyi-to-be-freed\">military ousted Myanmar\u2019s elected government<\/a>, plunging the country into chaos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/australian-academic-sean-turnell-sentenced-to-three-years-after-secret-trial-in-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic adviser to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was accused by military leaders of having confidential papersAung San Suu Kyi and the Australian academic Sean Turnell who served as her advisor have been sentenced to three years in prison after a clo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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":[919,43,645,53,82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934\/revisions\/48945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}