{"id":254903,"date":"2014-06-18T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254903"},"modified":"2014-06-18T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:22:52","slug":"hak-raises-political-prisoners-issue-at-meeting-with-pace-delegates-though-not-sure-if-political-prisoners-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/18\/hak-raises-political-prisoners-issue-at-meeting-with-pace-delegates-though-not-sure-if-political-prisoners-in-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"HAK Raises Political Prisoners Issue at Meeting with PACE Delegates Though Not Sure If Political Prisoners in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Armenian National Congress (HAK) raised 5 issues in its meeting with Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for monitoring Armenia Axel Fischer and Alan Meale: uncovering the circumstances surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/01\/putin-hands-off-armenia-and-ukraine-victims-of-march-1-commemorated-in-armenian-capital.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>March 1, 2008<\/strong><\/span><\/a>; electoral fraud and not publishing voter lists; the need for constitutional reform; media freedom; and the issue of political prisoners, said HAK faction secretary Aram Manukyan (pictured) in conversation with Epress.am.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever, he said that HAK itself has not yet decided if there are political prisoners in Armenia or not. &quot;Our party is discussing the question of whether <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>Shant Harutyunyan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/07\/sorry-to-the-armenian-people-karabakh-war-veteran-asked-to-apologize-to-the-court.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Volodya Avetisyan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> correspond to the criteria of political prisoners. I haven&#39;t yet reached a conclusion,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, the PACE co-rapporteurs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/17\/armenian-revolutionary-federation-doesnt-know-of-any-political-prisoners-in-armenia.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>also met with<\/strong><\/span><\/a> representatives of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Heritage Party, during which time they raised the issue of political prisoners and the protection of the rights of LGBT people in Armenia.&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>The Armenian National Congress (HAK) raised 5 issues in its meeting with Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for monitoring Armenia&#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":254364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10341,10340,13272,51376,50113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254903"}],"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=254903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}