{"id":138974,"date":"2011-11-03T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=138974"},"modified":"2011-11-03T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T08:10:54","slug":"police-change-tactics-permit-protest-outside-government-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/03\/police-change-tactics-permit-protest-outside-government-building.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Change Tactics, Permit Protest Outside Government Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, unlike last week, protestors outside the Armenian government building every Thursday were permitted to approach the building. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/27\/armenia-government-building-blocked-human-rights-activist-detained-by-police.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Last week<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, police had blocked off the area around the building, while protestors stood near the foundations in Republic Square, at least a kilometer or two away from their usual spot. Later, the demonstrators moved to the central police division where fellow activist Lala Aslikyan was being held.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Armenia\u2019s Police Patrol Service Valeriy Osipyan on Oct. 27 told the Epress.am reporter on the scene that police will not allow \u201cthe disruption of the normal course of the (weekly) government meetings and the movement of ordinary citizens.\u201d Asked from who police received such a directive, Osipyan said, \u201cThe police don\u2019t need a directive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked this week why the change the tactics, Osipyan refused to comment, advising reporters to contact the police press service.<\/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>Today, unlike last week, protestors outside the Armenian government building every Thursday were permitted to approach the building.<!-- 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":138935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,19046,12928,32040,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138974"}],"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=138974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}