{"id":258170,"date":"2014-10-02T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=258170"},"modified":"2014-10-02T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:54:55","slug":"258170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/02\/258170.html","title":{"rendered":"Republican Party Members Don\u2019t See Need for Domestic Violence Law (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">A large portion of Republican Party parliamentarians do not see domestic violence against women to be a serious issue, as well as the need to pass a law meant to prevent it. Epress.am asked questions in the National Assembly.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) faction MP, Artashes Geghamyan, specifically noted that he did not wish to talk about the issue. &ldquo;There are much larger issues in Armenia, if I speak about that,&nbsp;then people will call me crazy&rdquo; said Geghamyan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">HHK MP Mher Sedrakyan said that he is against violence if the &ldquo;woman is normal.&rdquo; &ldquo;Who would want to hit a woman, and get the children upset? Of course, there are incidents in our neighborhood, where they (men) can&rsquo;t fight against those stronger, so they release everything on their wives&#8230; But if the women are not morally sound and are unfaithful, it&rsquo;s possible to not only hit but also divorce her,&rdquo; said Mher Sedrakyan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">National Assembly Vice-Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov stated that violence against women does not exist in his surroundings because &ldquo;Armenians are a mother worshipping race.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Majority faction MP, singer Shushan Petrosyan said that personally she had never been a victim of violence; therefore, she does not know what type advice to give to fight against it.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Prosperous Armenia Party MP Elinar Vardanyan noted, that in order to fight against domestic violence, complementary tools would be helpful,&nbsp;and that she is in favor of a law.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMore details regarding the questions in the video:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8TkfCT2hC1A?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>&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>Majority faction MP, singer Shushan Petrosyan said that personally she had never been a victim to violence; therefore, she does not know what type advice to give to fight against it&#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":258140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16570,12536,18335,57808,12532,23059,12260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258170"}],"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=258170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}