{"id":266581,"date":"2015-07-02T19:43:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=266581"},"modified":"2015-07-02T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:43:32","slug":"armenian-protesters-staging-hunger-strike-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/07\/02\/armenian-protesters-staging-hunger-strike-taken-to-hospital.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Protesters Staging Hunger Strike Taken to Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHarutyun Harutyunyan and Hayk Barikyan, protesters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/30\/armenian-protesters-against-hike-in-electricity-rates-go-on-hunger-strike.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">staging a hunger strike<\/span><\/a> to demand reversal of the decision to increase Armenian electricity rates, were taken to the hospital on Thursday, July 2. Harurtyunyan had complaints of abdominal pain, while Barikyan was feeling generally unwell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, the protesters started their 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 against the hike in electricity rates. The young men had said they intended to continue the strike as long as the decision to increase rates was 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>Note, the protesters started their hunger strike on Tuesday evening on Baghramyan Avenue in downtown Yerevan, where thousands of people have been staging a sit-in protest against the hike in electricity rates. The young&#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":241022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32937,56330,12351,12336,12928,23784,12350,57002],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266581"}],"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=266581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}