{"id":76732,"date":"2026-03-17T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/mongolian-politicians-face-jail-vote-pm-resign"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:41:40","slug":"we-are-being-silenced-mongolian-politicians-face-jail-after-vote-calling-for-pm-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76732","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are being silenced\u2019: Mongolian politicians face jail after vote calling for PM to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former deputy speaker describes situation as absurd after being charged with \u2018effort to unlawfully seize state power\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A number of younger Mongolian politicians, including many women, are facing the threat of extended jail sentences for their role in challenging the country\u2019s political leadership, in what they claim are early skirmishes in a battle to prevent a slide into authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute forms part of a factional power struggle in the ruling party that is threatening to weaken Mongolia, one of the few democracies in the region, as it seeks to navigate a foreign policy independent of neighbouring Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/mongolian-politicians-face-jail-vote-pm-resign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former deputy speaker describes situation as absurd after being charged with \u2018effort to unlawfully seize state power\u2019A number of younger Mongolian politicians, including many women, are facing the threat of extended jail sentences for their role in cha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[1385,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mongolia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76732","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76733,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76732\/revisions\/76733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}