{"id":256322,"date":"2014-07-22T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=256322"},"modified":"2014-07-22T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T13:42:42","slug":"ex-gyumri-mayor%e2%80%99s-nephew-sentenced-to-17-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/22\/ex-gyumri-mayor%e2%80%99s-nephew-sentenced-to-17-years-in-prison.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Gyumri Mayor\u2019s Nephew Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Shirak District Court of First Instance today sentenced former Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan&#39;s nephew Vahe Ghukasyan to 17 years in prison. The prosecution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/02\/prosecution-demands-22-years-imprisonment-for-ex-gyumri-mayors-nephew.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>had asked for a 22-year sentence<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGhukasyan is accused of participating in a shooting on Shirakatsi Street in Gyumri on April 23 that resulted in two men &mdash; Harutyun Khachatryan and Artyom Karapetyan &mdash; being taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. The latter died in hospital.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn April 24, Ghukasyan confessed at the Gyumri police station that he fired a shot during the incident, killing Karapetyan and injuring Khachatryan. The two men were close to Prosperous Armenia Party MP <a href=\"http:\/\/parliament.am\/deputies.php?sel=details&amp;ID=1033&amp;lang=eng\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Martun Grigoryan<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGhukasyan&#39;s attorney Hayk Alumyan, in conversation with Epress.am, said they will be appealing the ruling, since the court didn&#39;t taken into account all the evidence when issuing the verdict. Alumyan claims his client was acting in self-defense, and this is proven by the fact that he was not the first person who fired a shot, which all the witness testimonies confirmed.<\/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 Shirak District Court of First Instance today sentenced former Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan&#8217;s nephew Vahe Ghukasyan to 17 years in prison.<!-- 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":181263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56656,24928,56655,33457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256322"}],"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=256322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}