{"id":258292,"date":"2014-10-06T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=258292"},"modified":"2014-10-06T14:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:06:43","slug":"armenian-prisoner-wants-press-conference-to-speak-about-prison-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/06\/armenian-prisoner-wants-press-conference-to-speak-about-prison-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Prisoner wants Press Conference to Speak about Prison Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Tomorrow, prisoner Artak Hakobyan, from the &ldquo;Prisoners Hospital&rdquo; penitentiary (Yerevan) is preparing for a press conference with journalists. Hakobyan&rsquo;s wife, Hayastan Hakobyan, told Epress.am about tomorrow&rsquo;s press conference. According to her, they petitioned to meet with journalists and to her knowledge the prison warden accepted the request. Hakobyan is planning to reveal much previously undisclosed information about prison life and the registered violations taken place against him.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Meanwhile, the head of public relations department of the Penitentiary Administration, Gor Ghlechyan, told Epress.am, that there has not been a concrete decision made regarding the prisoner&rsquo;s requested press conference and a final decision will be made today.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">On September 26, Hakobyan had cut his veins on his foot and hand and had nailed his feet. According to Hakobyan, the reason behind his actions was due to the treatment he received from detention officer, Major Smbat Hakobyan. According to Artak Hakobyan&rsquo;s wife, the officer continually said humiliating things with the intention to provoke a fight.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The prisoner petitioned the Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan and President Serzh Sargsyan, demanding a criminal case be opened against the Major.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Earlier, Hakobyan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/30\/prisoner-%E2%80%98i-was-tortured-and-not-released-because-of-complaint-against-prison-deputy-chief%E2%80%99.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">had applied<\/span><\/a> a number of times to court with complaints against the penitentiary administration about the biased and cruel behavior conducted against him. In regards, to the heavy pressure put on him, his form of obtaining revenge based on his testimonies has resulted in the arresting of the &ldquo;Nubarashen&rdquo; penitentiary deputy warden, Davit Muradyan and another employee from the same penitentiary.&nbsp;<\/span><\/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>Hakobyan is planning to reveal much previously undisclosed information about prison life and the registered violations taken place against him&#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":258288,"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\/258292"}],"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=258292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}