{"id":266707,"date":"2015-07-09T13:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=266707"},"modified":"2015-07-09T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T10:06:15","slug":"armenian-activist-starts-hunger-strike-in-front-of-presidents-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/07\/09\/armenian-activist-starts-hunger-strike-in-front-of-presidents-house.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Activist Starts Hunger Strike in Front of President&#8217;s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Civil society activist and former political prisoner Vardges Gaspari today, July 9, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/07\/08\/armenian-activist-finds-manure-outside-his-doorstep-transfers-it-to-presidents-house.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">once again found a pile of manure<\/span><\/a> dumped outside his doorstep. Yesterday, Gaspari transferred the dung to the gates of the RA president Serzh Sargsyan&#39;s house and was taken into police custody for a couple of hours.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGaspari started a hunger strike today at noon across the street from Sargsyan&#39;s house, at the intersection of Proshyan and Demirchyan streets, protesting against &quot;the violation of his right to freedom of expression.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe activist explained his motives for the strike on his personal Facebook page: &ldquo;Citizens act openly, publicly, taking responsibility for their actions. The criminal world acts covertly, avoiding responsibility.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Time and time again, after voicing my protests against the ruling authorities and serzh sargsyan <em>[sic]<\/em>, &quot;unknown people&quot; bring and dump manure outside my apartment in the night. Causing additional inconvenience to my neighbors, authorities are trying to silence my protest.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Thus, ruling authorities are also punishing my family, my minor son because of my support towards the mothers of [soldiers killed in the Armenian army] and other victims of injustice&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;To protest the gross violation of my (and others&#39;) right to expression, I will start a hunger strike today at noon in front of serzh sargsyan&#39;s <em>[sic]<\/em> house, at the Proshyan-Demirchyan crossroad&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;To add, I will continue my protest with the following slogans: &#39;serzhik &ndash; killer, serzhik &ndash; criminal, serzhik &#8211; &nbsp;rascal&#8230;&#39; <em>[sic]<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;It is my right as a citizen to voice my public assessment of a state official;&nbsp;and state officials, as well as their subordinates, National Security Service, party members, or others, have no right to use thug violence against me or others,&rdquo; Gaspari wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhfAxROLcEs?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"_appInstalled\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTime and time again, after voicing my protests against the ruling authorities and serzh sargsyan [sic], &#8220;unknown people&#8221; bring and dump manure outside my apartment in the night. Causing additional inconvenience to my neighbors&#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":266710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23194,12351,11268,16528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266707"}],"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=266707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}