{"id":259468,"date":"2014-11-05T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=259468"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:56:22","slug":"armenian-political-prisoner-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/05\/armenian-political-prisoner-released-from-prison.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Political Prisoner Released From Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Tigran Petrosyan, who was sentenced to one year imprisonment in the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/05\/film-shants-revolution.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">political prisoners Shant Harutyunyan and his friends<\/span><\/a>, was released from prison today. His lawyer Ara Zakaryan told Epress.am about the recent release. Shant Harutyunyan and his friends&nbsp; were found guilty for hooliganism during a November 5, 2013 protest rally. Albert Margaryan and Vahe Mkrtchyan were also found guilty for hooliganism using violence against citizens trying to prevent the initial hooliganism.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">On October 17, &nbsp;Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/05\/film-shants-revolution.html\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">officially sentenced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&nbsp;Shant Harutyunyan to 6 years imprisonment, Albert Margaryan also received 6 years, Vahe Mkrtchyan 7 years, Liparit Poghosyan 5 years, Vardan Vardanyan 5 years, Hayk Harutyunyan 4 years 6 months, Alek Poghosyan 4 years, Mkrtich Hovhannisyan 4 years, Armen Hovhannisyan 2 years, Sevak Mnatsakanyan 1 years 6 months, Tigran Petrosyan 1 year, and Misak Arakelyan was fined fifty times the minimum salary.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShant Harutyunyan&rsquo;s son, Shahen Harutyunyan, was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment, but the judge determined to conditionally not apply the sentence, instead he set probation for 4 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Photo from &ldquo;Freedom for Political Prisoner Tigran Petrosyan&rdquo; group&rsquo;s Facebook page.<\/span><\/em><\/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>Tigran Petrosyan, who was sentenced to one year imprisonment in the case of political prisoners Shant Harutyunyan and his friends, was released from prison today&#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":259460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10268,15655,27008,19903,13272,51376,57134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259468"}],"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=259468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}