{"id":254680,"date":"2014-06-13T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254680"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T12:21:42","slug":"from-now-on-defend-hayk-shant-harutyunyan-on-man-who-shot-at-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/13\/from-now-on-defend-hayk-shant-harutyunyan-on-man-who-shot-at-police.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;From Now On, Defend Hayk&#8221;: Shant Harutyunyan on Man Who Shot at Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Detained political activist Shant Harutyunyan considers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/12\/young-man-opens-fire-threatens-to-release-a-grenade-outside-courthouse-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Hayk Kyureghyan&#39;s act<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &quot;heroic,&quot; Shant Harutyunyan&#39;s son, Shahen Harutyunyan, wrote on his Facebook page.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;No longer defend me. From now on, defend Hayk, who made a heroic move and was arrested. He is charged with hooliganism and faces 4&ndash;7 years in prison,&quot; Shahen wrote, quoting his father.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, at the start of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/12\/country-is-falling-apart-armenian-revolutionary-asks-court-not-to-postpone-trial.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>first hearing<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the case of Shant Harutyunyan and 13 other men arrested with him yesterday, Hayk Kyureghyan climbed onto a car outside the courthouse and shot rounds from what seemed to be an air pistol in the police&#39;s direction, attempting, he said, to prevent &quot;an erroneous judgment on Shant.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tActivists calling for the release of the men whom they deem political prisoners who were demonstrating outside the courthouse yesterday said they don&#39;t recognize Hayk. There was some speculation that he might be an agent provocateur.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLocal daily<em> Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2014\/06\/13\/254627.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM] earlier today that the man known as Hayk studies at the State Engineering University of Armenia, where he is known as Areg.<\/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>&#8220;No longer defend me. From now on, defend Hayk, who made a heroic move and was arrested. He is charged with hooliganism and faces&#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":254665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254680"}],"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=254680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}