{"id":270507,"date":"2016-01-15T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T07:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=270507"},"modified":"2016-01-15T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T07:25:03","slug":"teenage-opposition-activist-attacked-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/01\/15\/teenage-opposition-activist-attacked-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Opposition Activist Attacked in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">A teenage opposition activist was ambushed and beaten up by two unknown men in Yerevan, not far from the police station in the city&#39;s Kanaker-Zeytun district, late on Tuesday, New Armenia, an alliance of opposition forces, said in a statement issued on January 14.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t16-year-old Hovhannes Harutyunyan, a child from a large family of a Karabakh war veteran living in difficult social conditions, has sustained serious bodily injuries, New Armenia said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;[The assailants] provoked a fight before beating [Hovhannes] up; they openly told him that &#39;you&#39;ve chosen a wrong path and have to back down.&#39;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;This demonstrative disregard of not only rule of law but also human morality proves that after rigging the [Constitutional amendments] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/08\/adoption-of-armenias-new-constitution-as-depicted-by-independent-observers-and-media.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">referendum<\/span><\/a>, the ruling regime has exhausted all its resources of fake democracy and is trying to maintain its existence by way of blunt violations of human rights and creating a pervasive atmosphere of terror,&rdquo; oppositionists&#39; statement read.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, another New Armenia activist,&nbsp;Syuzi Gevoryan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/01\/07\/human-rights-defenders-name-arrested-opposition-activist-first-political-prisoner-of-2016.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">was attacked<\/span><\/a> in Yerevan&#39;s Arabkir district late on January 5.<\/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>16-year-old Hovhannes Harutyunyan, a child from a large family of a Karabakh war veteran living in difficult social conditions, has sustained serious bodily injuries, New Armenia said&#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":270502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25157,15655,63373,63649,18518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270507"}],"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=270507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}