{"id":887529,"date":"2022-11-18T01:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/18\/sean-turnell-reunited-with-wife-in-australia-after-two-years-in-myanmar-prison"},"modified":"2022-11-18T01:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T01:58:31","slug":"sean-turnell-reunited-with-wife-in-australia-after-two-years-in-myanmar-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/18\/sean-turnell-reunited-with-wife-in-australia-after-two-years-in-myanmar-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Turnell reunited with wife in Australia after two years in Myanmar prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was described as being in \u2018amazingly good spirits\u2019 by Anthony Albanese<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/nov\/18\/australia-live-news-mh17-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-labor-coalition-sean-turnell-myanmar\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Having spent 650 days in a Myanmar prison accused of violating state secrets, Australian economist Prof Sean Turnell was asked by a military government official as he was escorted out of the country, \u201cDo you hate Myanmar now?\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI never hate Myanmar,\u201d Turnell replied. \u201cI love the people of Myanmar and it\u2019s always like that.\u201d<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/18\/sean-turnell-reunited-with-wife-in-australia-after-two-years-in-myanmar-prison\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/nov\/18\/sean-turnell-reunited-with-wife-in-australia-after-two-years-in-myanmar-prison\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was described as being in \u2018amazingly good spirits\u2019 by Anthony AlbaneseFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1757,3415,1340,6,1589],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887529"}],"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\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887530,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887529\/revisions\/887530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}