{"id":267556,"date":"2015-09-08T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T07:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=267556"},"modified":"2015-09-08T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T07:35:36","slug":"armenian-soldier-committed-suicide-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/08\/armenian-soldier-committed-suicide-officials-say.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Soldier Committed Suicide, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">A criminal case has been launched into the death of Armenian soldier Narek Harutyunyan, 19, pursuant to Part 1 of Article 110 of the RA Criminal Code (incitement to suicide), the Investigative Committee of Armenia reported Monday, September 7.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHarutyunyan, as stated by the officials, died from a gunshot wound to his lower jaw, and according to preliminary data the soldier&#39;s injury was self-inflicted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/07\/armenian-soldier-dies-in-accident-officials-say.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">statement<\/span><\/a> by the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry, the 19-year-old soldier of the NKR Defense Army died on the night from September 5 to September 6 in an &quot;emergency situation&quot; at one of the northern military units of the Defense Army. No other details were reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, in recent years local human rights organizations and experts have repeatedly stressed that Armenian military deaths are often classified as suicide by government bodies, and the courts always support the version of the Armenian military prosecutor&#39;s office; meanwhile, experts claim, in reality these soldiers are often killed. Some of the most notable cases include the deaths of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/24\/automatic-weapon-was-shoved-inside-my-sons-mouth-says-artak-nazaryans-mother.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Artak Nazaryan<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2013\/11\/20\/he-had-a-gun-but-there-were-no-fingerprints-expert-convinced-armenian-soldier-was-murdered.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Manuchar Manucharyan<\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/12\/04\/dead-soldiers-family-informed-of-nkr-court-verdict-after-3-weeks.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Arman Muradyan<\/span><\/a>.<\/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>Harutyunyan, as stated by the officials, died from a gunshot wound to his lower jaw, and according to preliminary data the soldier&#8217;s injury was self-inflicted&#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":208560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18898,10329,12009,60175,13901,11083,11838,60584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267556"}],"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=267556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}