{"id":266508,"date":"2015-06-30T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=266508"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:48:10","slug":"armenian-protesters-against-hike-in-electricity-rates-go-on-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/30\/armenian-protesters-against-hike-in-electricity-rates-go-on-hunger-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Protesters Against Hike in Electricity Rates Go on Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tTwo protesters against the latest hike in electricity rates in Armenia, Harutyun Harutyunyan and Hayk Barikyan, started a hunger strike on Tuesday evening on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/30\/demonstration-in-downtown-yerevan-enters-a-stage-of-self-organization.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Baghramyan Avenue<\/span><\/a> in downtown Yerevan, where thousands of people have been staging a sit-in protest for eight consecutive days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDeputy Yerevan Police Chief Valery Osipyan approached the demonstrators and asked about the basis for the hunger strike. One of the protesters advised the young men not to waste energy answering Osipyan&rsquo;s questions; however, the strikers decided to speak to Osipyan, stating they were still strong enough. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The hunger strike is due to the [<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;\">decision to increase electricity tariffs in Armenia<\/span><\/a>],&rdquo; Barikyan said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo Osipyan&rsquo;s remark &ldquo;Right here?&rdquo; the strikers answered they decided to go on a hunger strike on Baghramyan Avenue because that&rsquo;s where they have been for the last few days.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHarutyunyan and Barikyan intend to continue the strike as long as the decision to increase electricity rates is not reversed.<\/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>Deputy Yerevan Police Chief Valery Osipyan approached the demonstrators and asked about the basis for the hunger strike. One of the protesters advised the young men not to waste energy answering Osipyan\u2019s questions&#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":266505,"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\/266508"}],"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=266508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}