{"id":23789,"date":"2026-07-28T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/myanmar-approves-death-penalty-for-online-scam-operators\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:15:59","slug":"myanmar-approves-death-penalty-for-online-scam-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/myanmar-approves-death-penalty-for-online-scam-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar approves death penalty for online scam operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>YANGON, July 28 &mdash; Myanmar&rsquo;s military-backed parliament approved a law on Tuesday that authorises capital punishment for those who detain or violently coerce victims into working in online scam centres, the speaker said.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;Anti-Online Scam Bill&rdquo; was passed after MPs approved changes to a draft bill at a combined meeting of the lower and upper houses Tuesday morning in the capital Naypyidaw, Union Parliament Speaker Aung Lin Dwe said during a live television broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Lower house MP Aye Chan confirmed to AFP that the death sentence remained in the approved version of the law. &mdash; AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Myanmar approves death penalty for online scam operators<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YANGON, July 28 &mdash; Myanmar&rsquo;s military-backed parliament approved a law on Tuesday that authorises capital punishment for those who detain or violently coerce victims into working in online scam centres, the speaker said. The &ldquo;Anti-Online Scam Bill&rdquo; was passed after MPs approved changes to a draft bill at a combined meeting of the lower and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/myanmar-approves-death-penalty-for-online-scam-operators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Myanmar approves death penalty for online scam operators&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}