{"id":269829,"date":"2015-12-06T17:48:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269829"},"modified":"2015-12-06T17:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T13:48:46","slug":"unknown-person-filmed-distributing-money-among-citizens-on-referendum-day-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/unknown-person-filmed-distributing-money-among-citizens-on-referendum-day-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Person Filmed Distributing Money Among Citizens on Referendum Day (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">A reporter of RFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian Service has filmed an unknown man distributing money among the voters near a voting station in Yerevan. The man, as seen in the video, is handing out 10 thousand dram bills to each of the citizens, putting a plus sign in front of the names.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen confronted by the reporter about the list and the money, the man claimed it was a &ldquo;list of debts;&rdquo; he then tried to seize the journalist&#39;s camera.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eyIKA3UjtV4?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>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.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Local observation missions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/journalists-hindered-by-republican-proxies-at-polling-stations-one-detained.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 numerous instances of multiple voting.<\/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>When confronted by the reporter about the list and the money, the man claimed it was a \u201clist of debts;\u201d he then tried to seize the journalist&#8217;s camera&#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":269824,"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\/269829"}],"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=269829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}