{"id":200661,"date":"2021-06-11T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyi-trial-looms"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:30:48","slug":"un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyis-trial-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/11\/un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyis-trial-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"UN decries Myanmar \u2018catastrophe\u2019 as Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s trial looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights commissioner says junta is \u2018singularly responsible for crisis\u2019 ahead of ousted leader\u2019s trial<\/p><p>Myanmar has descended into a \u201chuman rights catastrophe\u201d, the UN\u2019s top human rights official has warned in the run-up to the scheduled start of the trial of Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who faces criminal charges that could lead to decades in prison.<\/p><p>Aung San Suu Kyi, who previously spent a total of 15 years in detention at the behest of Myanmar\u2019s generals and is widely revered domestically as a symbol of the country\u2019s yearning for democracy, is expected to appear in court in Naypyidaw on Monday.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyi-trial-looms\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/un-decries-myanmar-catastrophe-as-aung-san-suu-kyi-trial-looms\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights commissioner says junta is \u2018singularly responsible for crisis\u2019 ahead of ousted leader\u2019s trialMyanmar has descended into a \u201chuman rights catastrophe\u201d, the UN\u2019s top human rights official has warned in the run-up to the scheduled start of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3415,6,1589,2038,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200956,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200661\/revisions\/200956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}