{"id":254983,"date":"2014-06-19T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254983"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:43:47","slug":"police-detain-activist-who-tore-banner-advertising-an-improved-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/19\/police-detain-activist-who-tore-banner-advertising-an-improved-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Detain Activist Who Tore Banner Advertising &#8220;An Improved Yerevan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Anahit Aghekyan was detained by police earlier today near the Afrikyan House, civil society activist Arpine Galfayan informed Epress.am. According to her, workers began building a gate in the yard of the building, and activists responded with nonviolent resistance.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWitness Grigor Ghazaryan told Epress.am that Aghekyan merely tore off the banner surrounding the construction site that read &quot;An improved Yerevan&quot;. According to him, police officers twisted Aghekyan&#39;s arms, who shouted: &quot;I treat people like you with these hands!&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, members of the initiative SOS! Save the Afrikyans&#39; Building have been protesting against the dismantling of the building for weeks, stating that it is a historically and culturally significant monument. Activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/17\/activist-detained-today-during-dismantling-of-afrikyans-building.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Sona Asatrian was detained<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by police two days ago and released the same day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/10\/activists-protesting-dismantling-of-historic-afrikyan-house-detained-newspaper.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Several activists were detained<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by police last week when they attempted to remove the tin sheets surrounding the building and prevent the dismantling.&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>Anahit Aghekyan was detained by police earlier today near the Afrikyan House, civil society activist Arpine Galfayan informed Epress.am. <!-- 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":112451,"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\/254983"}],"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=254983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}