{"id":57144,"date":"2023-08-01T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-receives-partial-pardon-myanmar"},"modified":"2023-08-01T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:28:37","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-receives-partial-pardon-by-myanmar-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57144","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi given partial pardon by Myanmar junta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted leader granted clemency on five charges as part of amnesty but faces a further 14 cases<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s junta has pardoned Aung San Suu Kyi on five legal charges, military-controlled TV has announced, although the deposed leader still faces more than two decades in detention.<\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained by the military since 1 February 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">when it ousted her democratically elected government<\/a>. The 76-year-old has since been sentenced for <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\">multiple charges<\/a> \u2013 including incitement, electoral fraud and corruption.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-receives-partial-pardon-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted leader granted clemency on five charges as part of amnesty but faces a further 14 casesMyanmar\u2019s junta has pardoned Aung San Suu Kyi on five legal charges, military-controlled TV has announced, although the deposed leader still faces more than t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3870,"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":[919,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","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\/57144","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\/3870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57144\/revisions\/57174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}