{"id":49279,"date":"2022-10-12T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/12\/aung-san-suu-kyi-faces-total-of-26-years-in-prison-after-latest-corruption-sentencing"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:09:10","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-faces-total-of-26-years-in-prison-after-latest-corruption-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49279","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi faces total of 26 years in prison after latest corruption sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court controlled by junta adds a further three years in jail to raft of other sentences handed to the former leader<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds\">Myanmar\u2019s military coup explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A military-controlled court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a further three years in jail for corruption, according to reports, meaning she now faces a total of 26 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi has faced a raft of legal cases after the military\u2019s seizure of power in February 2021, from incitement and multiple corruption charges, to illegal possession of walkie-talkies and breaking Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/12\/aung-san-suu-kyi-faces-total-of-26-years-in-prison-after-latest-corruption-sentencing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court controlled by junta adds a further three years in jail to raft of other sentences handed to the former leaderMyanmar\u2019s military coup explained in 30 secondsA military-controlled court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a f&#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":[919,82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49279","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=49279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49280,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49279\/revisions\/49280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}