{"id":254779,"date":"2014-06-16T22:08:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254779"},"modified":"2014-06-17T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:50:35","slug":"man-arrested-after-shooting-in-yerevan-claims-police-beat-him-azatutyun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/16\/man-arrested-after-shooting-in-yerevan-claims-police-beat-him-azatutyun.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Shooting in Yerevan Claims Police Beat Him: Azatutyun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">There were bruises on the arms of Hayk Kyureghyan, who was arrested today after <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>opening fire<\/strong><\/span><\/a> outside a Yerevan courtroom on June 12, protesting the trial of Shant Harutyunyan and 13 other men who were arrested last November in clashes with police. The bruises were seen by head of a group of civil society members monitoring conditions in Armenian prisons and detention center Hasmik Sahakyan, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/25424170.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>RFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (Azatutyun).<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Sahakyan, the detainee claimed to have been ill-treated during and after the arrest. &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t want to give details,&rdquo; she told RFE\/RL&rsquo;s Armenian service, referring to the bruises on his arms. &ldquo;He said he will speak about them later on.&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tKyureghyan insisted on the torture claims when he met with representatives of human rights ombudsman Karen Andreasyan&rsquo;s office on Saturday. One of those officials, Armen Grigoryan, said, &ldquo;There were traces of violence on his body. Kyureghyan said that he was beaten up at the police headquarters in Kentron [district.]&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service contacted the police&#39;s public relations department and received the following response: &quot;The preliminary investigation continues.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>To read the article in its entirety, please go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/25424170.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>original source here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/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>There were bruises on the arms of Hayk Kyureghyan, who was arrested today after opening fire outside a Yerevan courtroom on June 12, protesting the trial of&#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":254773,"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\/254779"}],"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=254779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}