{"id":266068,"date":"2015-06-20T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=266068"},"modified":"2015-06-20T19:45:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T15:45:49","slug":"police-prevents-protesters-from-building-shelter-sit-in-against-electricity-price-hike-continues-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/20\/police-prevents-protesters-from-building-shelter-sit-in-against-electricity-price-hike-continues-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Prevent Protesters From Building Shelter; Sit-In Against Electricity Price Hike Continues in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAbout 250 participants of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/?p=266054\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">spontaneous sit-in protest<\/span><\/a> against the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/17\/armenian-protesters-throw-eggs-at-psrc-office-after-commission-decides-to-increase-electricity-tariff-by-nealy-7-drams.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">hike in electricity prices<\/span><\/a> in Armenia have spent the night at the Freedom Square, Maksim Sargsyan, one of the demonstrators, informed Epress.am.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThere were no clashes with the police during the night, the activist said: the demonstrators sang, danced and talked till dawn. At around 9:00 AM they tried to build a shelter using cardboard boxes so that people could take refuge from the sun and rest; however, they were prevented by police.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We did not want to get drawn into an argument, so we agreed not to build the shelter,&rdquo; Sargsyan said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAround 9:30 AM some of the demonstrators began to disperse: they went home to get some rest, and bring food, water, and clothes. They were soon replaced by newcomers at the Square.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe people, Maksim Sargsyan said, are staging an indefinite sit-in and do not intend to leave the Freedom Square as long as the decision of the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission to increase electricity tariff in Armenia by nearly 7&nbsp;drams is not reversed by authorities.&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>The people, Maksim Sargsyan said, are staging an indefinite sit-in and do not intend to leave the Freedom Square as long as the decision of the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission to increase electricity tariff in Armenia&#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":266065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56330,61803,12336,12928,23784,12350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266068"}],"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=266068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}