{"id":259756,"date":"2014-11-12T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=259756"},"modified":"2014-11-12T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:12:11","slug":"indefinite-sit-in-in-front-of-presidential-palace-protesting-parents-demand-a-fair-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/12\/indefinite-sit-in-in-front-of-presidential-palace-protesting-parents-demand-a-fair-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Indefinite Sit-in In Front of Presidential Palace, Protesting Parents Demand a Fair Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Today, November 12, HSBC Bank employee and three-year imprisoned Ashot Arushanyan&#39;s parents have begun an indefinite sit-in and hunger strike&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">across the street from the Presidential Palace, near the Marshal Baghramyan Metro.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThey brought a couch and armchairs to the site of the sit-in, placing their posters next to the furniture. Yesterday, the Arushanyans and their supporters conducted a protest near the Presidential Palace, demanding that President Serzh Sargsyan secure a fair investigation for their son.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn June of this year, Ashot Arushanyan was sentenced to 5 and a half years imprisonment. According to the most recent accusations, on November 21, 2011, the defendant, Edgar Karakeshishyan, organized to steal 56 million AMD ($135,000) from the car of Manana Grain company&rsquo;s deputy director Armen Manukyan, while information about the transfer of money was given by Arushanyan. Karakeshishyan was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. Artashes Galustyan was also charged, but was set free and subsequently found dead after committing suicide in his home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Ashot Arushanyan&rsquo;s father, Lavrenti Arushanyan, the only proof against his son is a testimony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/11\/father-asks-president-sargsyan%E2%80%99s-intervention-in-son%E2%80%99s-case-torture-and-theft-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">obtained through torture<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9E5migGARs?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>They brought a couch and armchairs to the site of the sit-in, placing their posters next to the furniture. Yesterday, the Arushanyans and their supporters conducted a protest near the&#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":259740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25493,54579,58602,58578],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259756"}],"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=259756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}