{"id":253238,"date":"2014-05-13T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253238"},"modified":"2014-05-13T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:25:13","slug":"activist-lost-consciousness-in-police-car-says-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/13\/activist-lost-consciousness-in-police-car-says-friend.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Lost Consciousness in Police Car, Says Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">While being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/13\/activists-detained-prior-to-sargsyans-and-hollandes-arrival-at-mashtots-park.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>detained by police<\/strong><\/span><\/a> earlier today, Mashtots Park activist Dvin Isanyans (pictured) lost consciousness in a police car from blows inflicted by a police officer. This news was conveyed to Epress.am by Gevorg Safaryan, who also was detained today.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSafaryan said police officers dragged him, Isanyans, and Ani Khachatryan to the police vehicle, and the all the way to the station, they swore at and attacked them.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;I didn&#39;t see specifically where the police officer struck him, but Dvin lost consciousness and for a few minutes the same officer was trying to revive him. He was asking, &#39;What, better now?&#39; We&#39;re now at the station and most likely they&#39;ll slap us with an administrative fine,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, civil society activists had gathered at Mashtots Park since early this morning to protest the renaming of the park. They issued an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/13\/french-president-urged-not-to-participate-in-ceremony-renaming-yerevans-mashtots-park.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>open letter<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to visiting French President Fran&ccedil;ois Hollande and French Ambassador to Armenia Henri Reynaud, urging them not to participate in the ceremony.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tActivists said they consider &quot;the renaming, re- appropriation and co-optation of this public space with such important significance&quot; to be unacceptable. Mashtots Park, they said, is a symbol of &quot;the Armenian citizenry&rsquo;s campaign to protect its constitutional rights, and as a platform for the freedom of expression and thought in Armenia.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tActivists at the park were chanting &quot;The park is ours!&quot;, &quot;There is no mayor!&quot; and &quot;The president is dead!&quot;, after which plainclothes officers formed a human chain around the activists.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe demonstrators called upon law enforcement officers not to organization provocations and urged provocateurs to wear police uniforms and not block their freedom of movement.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Your boss, your dad, that [Armenian President] Serzhik [Sargsyan] disgraces [Armenia] to the whole world. That man [French President Fran&ccedil;ois Hollande] is aware of all this. You are a disgrace to your master. It&#39;s not right to be so loyal &mdash; you have to have dignity and self-respect,&quot; said activist Anna Shahnazaryan, addressing the police.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLater, clashes erupted between police officers and activists, after which the latter were detained.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Photo from Dvin Isanyans&#39; personal Facebook page.<\/em><\/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>While being detained by police earlier today, Mashtots Park activist Dvin Isanyans lost consciousness in a police car from blows inflicted by a police officer.<!-- 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":253232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55410,52201,38251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253238"}],"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=253238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}