{"id":154236,"date":"2012-01-17T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=154236"},"modified":"2012-01-17T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:16:28","slug":"turns-out-armenian-citizen-in-south-sudan-wasnt-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/17\/turns-out-armenian-citizen-in-south-sudan-wasnt-arrested.html","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out Armenian Citizen in South Sudan Wasn&#8217;t Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airline crew arrested in South Sudan yesterday, which also included an Armenian national, has been released, RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Tigran Balayan told Epress.am.<\/p>\n<p>According to Balayan, the crew, in fact, wasn&#8217;t arrested; simply the aircraft was taken from them, which is tied to the political situation in South Sudan. While the aircraft was under authorities&#8217; control, its crew was kept in the military camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian national, the MFA spokesperson continued, asked that his name not be made public but said that he&#8217;ll wait in South Sudan until the fate of their aircraft is known, after which he too will decide what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Balayan <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/tbalayan\/status\/159218141107453952\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">tweeted<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> earlier that the Ministry spoke with the Armenian national by phone and &#8220;he is in freedom and safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tigran.Balayan.tweet_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154240\" title=\"Tigran.Balayan.tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tigran.Balayan.tweet_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tigran.Balayan.tweet_.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tigran.Balayan.tweet_-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/17\/identity-of-armenian-national-detained-in-south-sudan-established.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reported earlier<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> that the crew of Park Air Company of Sudan An-32 aircraft were arrested in South Sudan by special services. Armenia&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Ministry determined the identity of the Armenian national, but did not go public with it due to ethical considerations.<\/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>RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Tigran Balayan tweeted earlier that the Ministry spoke with the Armenian national by phone and &#8220;he is in freedom and safety.&#8221;<!-- 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":154220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18529,20560,16625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154236"}],"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=154236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}