{"id":270618,"date":"2016-01-21T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=270618"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:20:14","slug":"teenage-armenian-activist-pressured-by-police-forrights%e2%80%a4am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/01\/21\/teenage-armenian-activist-pressured-by-police-forrights%e2%80%a4am.html","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Armenian Activist Pressured by Police: Forrights\u2024am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Kanaker-Zeytun department of Yerevan&#39;s police, instead of discovering the circumstances and perpetrators of the attack on New Armenia opposition movement teenage member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/01\/15\/teenage-opposition-activist-attacked-in-yerevan.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Hovhannes Harutyunyan<\/span><\/a>, has begun putting psychological pressure on the boy&#39;s family, Forrights\u2024am writes, citing 16-year-old Harutyunyan&#39;s legal representative Varuzhan Avetisyan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe teenager and his family members, the lawyer said, were constantly being called into the police station and given instructions to behave in ways that conform to the authorities&#39; wishes. As a result, Hovhannes has already withdrawn his complaint, and Avetisyan is convinced the victim will soon change his original testimony and say that the attack had no political motives whatsoever.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe lawyer added that the police have even tried to cast doubt on the fact of the teenager&#39;s beating. &ldquo;I hate having to work with the police, and I don&#39;t want them to bother me anymore. I&#39;ll ask them to close the case,&rdquo; the lawyer cited Hovhannes as saying.<\/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>The lawyer added that the police have even tried to cast doubt on the fact of the teenager&#8217;s beating. \u201cI hate having to work with the police, and I don&#8217;t want them to bother me anymore. I&#8217;ll ask them to close the case,\u201d the lawyer cited Hovhannes as saying&#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":[10],"tags":[23194,25157,63373,10339,12336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270618"}],"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=270618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270618\/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=270618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}