{"id":104076,"date":"2011-06-08T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=104076"},"modified":"2011-06-08T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:14:50","slug":"yerevan-court-rules-in-favor-of-plaintiff-local-daily-to-pay-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/08\/yerevan-court-rules-in-favor-of-plaintiff-local-daily-to-pay-mp.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Court Rules in Favor of Plaintiff: Local Daily to Pay MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron (&#8220;Center&#8221;) and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan made public today its ruling in the case of MP Tigran Arzakantsyan vs. local daily Yerkir (&#8220;Country&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) deputy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/25\/armenian-mp-sues-yet-another-local-newspaper.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">filed a lawsuit<\/span><\/strong><\/a> against the daily, claiming that the newspaper sullied his honor and dignity in an article as part of a series titled \u201c131 faces and masks\u201d in Yerkir\u2019s Jan. 13 issue.<\/p>\n<p>The MP was demanding 3 million 568 thousand AMD (about $9,775 US) in compensation: 3 million AMD (about $8,219 US) in damages for insult and libel; 500,000 AMD (about $1,370 US) for lawyer fees incurred; and 68,000 AMD (about $186 US) for court expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s decision ruled in favor of the plaintiff and the daily now has to pay Arzakantsyan 280,000 drams (about $747 USD), 80,000 drams (about $213 USD) of which are for court expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Yerkir&#8217;s attorney and the chief editor have stated that they will make a final decision on whether to appeal the decision or not once they&#8217;ve become more acquainted with the ruling.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local daily Yerkir has to pay MP Tigran Arzakantsyan 280,000 drams ($747 USD), 80,000 drams ($213 USD) of which are&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24723,22567,22569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}