{"id":266437,"date":"2015-06-29T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=266437"},"modified":"2015-06-29T00:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:27:44","slug":"video-from-demonstration-site-in-downtown-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/29\/video-from-demonstration-site-in-downtown-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO From Demonstration Site in Downtown Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tVideo from Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/28\/266430.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">thousands rallied<\/span><\/a> again after &ldquo;No to Robbery&rdquo; civic initiative members urged people to assemble on Marshal Baghramyan Avenue at 6 PM on Sunday in order to develop a further action plan and discuss Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/27\/armenian-parliament-to-subsidize-cost-of-increased-electricity-rates-%E2%80%9Cat-the-expense-of-taxpayers%E2%80%9D.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">statement<\/span><\/a>, according to which the RA government would subsidize the cost of electricity rate hike, leaving the tariff unchanged for consumers until an international audit of the national electricity distribution company &ldquo;Electric Networks of Armenia&rdquo; was completed.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the beginning of the rally, &ldquo;No to Robbery&rdquo; suggested moving the protest to the Freedom Square in central Yerevan; soon after, the members of the group and about two hundred protesters left Baghramyan Avenue. Thousands of demonstrators, however, remained at the site of the sit-in. The police called on them to disperse; otherwise, they have threatened to forcefully disperse the crowd.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The video was shot between 6 PM and 9:30 PM on Sunday<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxM2EkE35dE?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>On June 19, thousands of demonstrators began round-the-clock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/?p=266054\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">protests<\/span><\/a> in Yerevan against the plans by the national power utility to <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;\">raise electricity tariffs<\/span><\/a> in Armenia.&nbsp;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>On June 22, hundreds of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/22\/armenian-police-block-march-towards-presidential-palace-as-citizens-march-against-hike-in-electricity-tariff.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">demonstrators marched<\/span><\/a> toward the RA presidential residence on central Marshal Baghramyan Avenue. However, hundreds of armed police officers, forming a barricade, closed the road, not allowing demonstrators to get any closer to the presidential office. Protesters then sat in the middle of the road at the intersection of Baghramyan and Isahakyan streets, staging an impromptu sit-in outside the presidential palace.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Early on June 23, authorities warned the people that the protest was unsanctioned and warned that if the demonstrators did not clear the area, the police would use &ldquo;special means&rdquo; to disperse them. Shortly after, Armenian riot police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/26\/epress-am-recovers-video-material-seized-by-armenian-police-during-sit-in-dispersal-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">violently dispersed<\/span><\/a> the crowd.<\/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>At the beginning of the rally, \u201cNo to Robbery\u201d suggested moving the protest to the Freedom Square in central Yerevan; soon after, the members of the group and about two hundred protesters left Baghramyan Avenue&#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":266434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266437"}],"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=266437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}