{"id":155356,"date":"2012-01-20T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=155356"},"modified":"2012-01-20T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:54:01","slug":"bus-passengers-held-hostage-by-drivers-now-crossing-armenia-georgia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/20\/bus-passengers-held-hostage-by-drivers-now-crossing-armenia-georgia-border.html","title":{"rendered":"Bus Passengers Held Hostage by Drivers Now Crossing Armenia-Georgia Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 47 passengers on the bus from Istanbul to Yerevan, who were kept hostage by the 2 Turkish and Georgian drivers on the Georgian side of the Armenia-Georgia border, recently approached border control with their luggage and are expected to enter the territory of Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>This news was conveyed to Epress.am by Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Tigran Balayan, who mentioned their office received this news moments ago from the Georgian embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, since Wednesday, the drivers weren&#8217;t allowing passengers (which included 45 Armenians and 2 Turks \u2014 mainly women, children and the elderly) to leave the bus. The drivers were protesting unpaid wages, refusing to continue their route because they had signed a contract with a company that had not yet paid them. Armenia&#8217;s Consul in Georgia was dealing with the case.<\/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 47 passengers on the bus from Istanbul to Yerevan, who were kept hostage by the 2 Turkish and Georgian drivers on the Georgian side of the&#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":155302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20315,37134,37133,20316,23061],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155356"}],"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=155356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}