{"id":265199,"date":"2015-05-21T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=265199"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:47:30","slug":"eap-civil-society-conference-calls-for-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-armenia-azerbaijan-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/05\/21\/eap-civil-society-conference-calls-for-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-armenia-azerbaijan-and-belarus.html","title":{"rendered":"EaP Civil Society Conference Calls for the Release of Political Prisoners in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The European Union&#39;s Eastern Partnership <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/europa.eu\/newsroom\/calendar\/events\/2015\/05\/20-eastern_partnership_civil_society_en.htm\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Civil Society Conference<\/span><\/a> in Riga unanimously adopted a special <a href=\"http:\/\/eap-csf.eu\/en\/news-events\/news\/eastern-partnership-civil-society-conference-adopts-special-resolution-on-political-prisoners\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">resolution on political prisoners<\/span><\/a> on Thursday, May 21, proposed by human rights defender and former political prisoner Ales Bialiatski. The resolution calls for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Azerbaijan, Belarus and Armenia.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The governments of these countries must understand that imprisonment of their citizens for&nbsp;political reasons has no place in light of&nbsp;the commitments they made when joining the Eastern&nbsp;Partnership.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPrisoners must be released, harassment of NGOs must stop, and human rights must be&nbsp;respected,&rdquo; the resolution says.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, a number of international and local human rights organizations, politicians, and political parties have recognized jailed reserve colonel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2013\/09\/20\/prominent-war-veteran-arrested-accused-of-swindling.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Volodya Avetisyan<\/span><\/a>, oppositionist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/11\/05\/film-shants-revolution.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Shant Harutyunyan<\/span><\/a>, and his imprisoned supporters as political prisoners.&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>\u201cThe governments of these countries must understand that imprisonment of their citizens for political reasons has no place in light of the commitments they made when joining the Eastern Partnership&#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":265203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35062,10268,29887,16151,15655,19903,14362,51376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265199"}],"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=265199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}