{"id":129062,"date":"2011-09-22T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=129062"},"modified":"2011-09-22T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:41:32","slug":"police-dragged-me-on-the-ground-called-me-insane-says-opposition-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/22\/police-dragged-me-on-the-ground-called-me-insane-says-opposition-activist.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Dragged Me on the Ground, Called Me Insane, Says Opposition Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Vardges Gaspari was staging a protest during the military parade marking 20 years of Armenian independence yesterday when he was forcibly removed from Yerevan&#8217;s Republic Square.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition activist recounted his story to Epress.am today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the military parade, I held a poster on which it was written that ironic [or ridiculous] is a parade for an army in which more people die from bullets fired by our own soldiers than those fired by the enemy. I was standing on my own outside the government building, when suddenly someone in plainclothes came, attacked [me]\u00a0 and stole my poster. At that time, I lay on the ground. Red berets [Armenia&#8217;s Police Patrol Service] led by Valeriy Osipyan appeared and dragged me to the Hanrapetutyun [Republic Square] metro station and they weren&#8217;t letting me go forward from there. Osipyan was saying, &#8216;He&#8217;s mentally ill.&#8217; Regarding this matter, I have prepared a statement [to report] a crime, as well as a separate statement for that expression of Osipyan&#8217;s, which is a gross violation of the law,&#8221; Gaspari said.<\/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>Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Vardges Gaspari was staging a protest during the military parade marking 20&#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":123012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,16527,11084,16528,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129062"}],"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=129062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}