{"id":269809,"date":"2015-12-06T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T11:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269809"},"modified":"2015-12-06T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T12:00:28","slug":"journalists-hindered-by-republican-proxies-at-polling-stations-one-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/journalists-hindered-by-republican-proxies-at-polling-stations-one-detained.html","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Hindered by Republican Proxies at Polling Stations, One Detained (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">At 10\/20 polling station in Yerevan&#39;s Kentron and Nork Marash administrative districts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/republican-youth-detained-at-voting-precinct-for-checking-whether-his-people-had-voted-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">a proxy from Armenia&#39;s ruling Republican Party<\/span><\/a> initiated an altercation with iLur.am freelance correspondent Rafayel Afrikyan, tore his clothes and broke the reporter&#39;s camera, iLur.am writes. Afrikyan has reported the incident to the prosecutor&#39;s office; the Republican proxy has been detained.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IeEvj9_Pyvw?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Hetq.am, in turn, reports that upon entering the 5\/28 polling station in Arabkir station, another Republican proxy Arthur Khurshudyan approached the outlet&#39;s reporter&nbsp;and started yelling: &ldquo;Enough already with swarming around here!&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Khurshudyan, as stated by the source, seized journalist Diana Ghazaryan&#39;s laptop on which she was writing her news material, and as the reporter was trying to film the violator, the man quickly left the precinct, taking the laptop with him.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor office (HCAV) reports that journalist Sona Tadevosyan, a representative of the Gyumri-based Asparez Journalists&#39; Club, has been detained from the 26\/16 polling station in the town of Charentsavan in Armenia&#39;s Kotayk province.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">On 8 am Sunday Armenians have begun voting in a nationwide referendum on draft constitutional amendments, initiated by President Serzh Sargsyan, that seek, among other changes, to transition Armenia from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance.<\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Local observation missions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/observer-missions-record-first-violations-in-constitutional-referendum-voting.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">have been reporting<\/span><\/a> a number of different infringements during the election process, including but not limited to hindrance to the observers&#39; and journalists&#39; work, violations of the secrecy of voting, as well as&nbsp;numerous instances of multiple voting.<\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/multipleman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"multipleman\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269813\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/multipleman.jpg\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/multipleman.jpg 500w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/multipleman-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Photo of a man voting for the second time at 11\/3 polling station in Yerevan&#39;s Shengavit district, as reported by<\/em><em style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TI_Armenia\/status\/673454219324715008\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Transparency International Armenia<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/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>Helsinki Citizens&#8217; Assembly Vanadzor office (HCAV) reports that journalist Sona Tadevosyan, a representative of the Gyumri-based Asparez Journalists&#8217; Club, has been detained from the 26\/16 polling station&#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":269802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62301,54731,62882,63027,18396,63408,22025],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269809"}],"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=269809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}