{"id":50307,"date":"2022-11-17T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/myanmar-to-free-australian-sean-turnell-and-briton-vicky-bowman-amid-prisoner-release"},"modified":"2022-11-17T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T11:22:23","slug":"myanmar-to-free-australian-sean-turnell-and-briton-vicky-bowman-amid-prisoner-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50307","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar frees former UK ambassador amid mass prisoner release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media says foreign nationals and 712 \u2018political prisoners\u2019 among 5,774 to be freed in so-called amnesty<\/p>\n<p>Almost 6,000 people will be released from prison in Myanmar, including the Australian academic Prof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/australian-academic-sean-turnell-sentenced-to-three-years-after-secret-trial-in-myanmar\">Sean Turnell<\/a>, Britain\u2019s former ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/ex-uk-ambassador-husband-jailed-year-myanmar-reports-vicky-bowman-htein-lin\">Vicky Bowman<\/a> and the Japanese film-maker Toru Kubota, junta-controlled media has said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Myanmar\u2019s state-run MRTV said that the foreign nationals, as well as a Burmese-American citizen, had been released and deported in a so-called amnesty timed to coincide with Myanmar National Day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/myanmar-to-free-australian-sean-turnell-and-briton-vicky-bowman-amid-prisoner-release\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media says foreign nationals and 712 \u2018political prisoners\u2019 among 5,774 to be freed in so-called amnestyAlmost 6,000 people will be released from prison in Myanmar, including the Australian academic Prof Sean Turnell, Britain\u2019s former ambassador V&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3439,"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":[43,82,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-myanmar","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\/50307","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\/3439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50311,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50307\/revisions\/50311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}