{"id":110353,"date":"2011-06-30T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=110353"},"modified":"2011-06-30T21:12:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:12:25","slug":"sarkis-hatspanian%e2%80%99s-status-in-armenia-will-be-resolved-applied-for-one-year-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/30\/sarkis-hatspanian%e2%80%99s-status-in-armenia-will-be-resolved-applied-for-one-year-residency.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarkis Hatspanian\u2019s Status in Armenia will be Resolved. Applied for One-Year Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problems connected with French citizen Sarkis Hatspanian\u2019s status in Armenia are being resolved. Hatspanian, who was released from prison early this month, conveyed this news himself while speaking at the Armenian National Congress (HAK) rally in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>Hatspanian, an opposition activist and Nagorno-Karabakh War veteran, was arrested on Nov. 7, 2008, on charges of false denunciation and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. The opposition considers his arrest to be politically motivated and thus refers to him as a political prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, prior to be released from prison, Hatspanian had sent a letter to HAK, saying that Armenia\u2019s authorities are creating obstacles in providing him with Armenian citizenship and there is the threat that he might be deported. On May 31, HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrossian, during his speech, stated that the issue of Hatspanian\u2019s status is an important issue for HAK and they must do everything to settle this issue.<\/p>\n<p>During his speech today, Hatspanian stated that, thanks to HAK and Levon Ter-Petrossian, an undesirable ordeal came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey called me to the passports and visas department, I submitted an appeal to get a one-year residence and in a few weeks, I\u2019ll get it,\u201d said Hatspanian today.<\/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>The problems connected with French citizen Sarkis Hatspanian\u2019s status in Armenia are being resolved. Hatspanian, who was released from prison&#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":110345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,11546,27341],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110353"}],"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=110353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}