{"id":270024,"date":"2015-12-11T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=270024"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:53:30","slug":"emaciated-hayk-kyureghyan-deprived-of-adequate-medical-treatment-father-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/11\/emaciated-hayk-kyureghyan-deprived-of-adequate-medical-treatment-father-alerts.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Emaciated&#8217; Hayk Kyureghyan Deprived of Adequate Medical Treatment, Father Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/15\/supporter-of-armenian-political-prisoners-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Hayk Kyureghyan<\/span><\/a>, a supporter of Armenian political prisoners sentenced in September to nine years in jail for hooliganism, has been on a hunger strike for 24 consecutive days. Kyureghyan&#39;s father, Armenak Kyureghyan, today issued a statement alerting that life in prison has caused his son serious health problems, Hetq.am reports.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Being a non-smoker and being in a closed and congested area, where the number of prisoners is three times higher than normal (17 persons), where people sleep in turns and where there&#39;s no proper ventilation, Hayk has developed a [cigarette] smoke allergy and a chronic cough. After the family&#39;s appeal, he received an incomplete treatment which was discontinued on the grounds of lack of appropriate specialist. Hayk is now in an extremely emaciated state; his health and his life are in danger, but his spirit is unbending,&rdquo; the father wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKyureghyan expressed concern that Hayk might intentionally receive harmful substances with food; therefore, he wrote, it&#39;s necessary to transfer the prisoner to a separate cell and provide him with an adequate treatment: &ldquo;[Armenia&#8217;s] authorities carry the responsible for Hayk Kyureghyan&#8217;s, as well as any other prisoner&#8217;s life and health; [authorities] should ensure [the prisoners&#8217;] safety, and not turn political revenge into practice.&rdquo;<\/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>Hayk Kyureghyan, a supporter of Armenian political prisoners sentenced in September to nine years in jail for hooliganism, has been on a hunger strike for 24 consecutive days. Kyureghyan&#8217;s father, Armenak Kyureghyan,..<!-- 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":267729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270024"}],"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=270024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}