{"id":271239,"date":"2016-02-24T23:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271239"},"modified":"2016-02-24T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T19:33:43","slug":"citizens-hold-solidarity-action-condemn-violence-against-armenian-political-prisoner-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/24\/citizens-hold-solidarity-action-condemn-violence-against-armenian-political-prisoner-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Hold Solidarity Action, Condemn Violence Against Armenian Political Prisoner (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tA number of Armenian citizens gathered Wednesday evening outside the presidential palace in Yerevan to express their solidarity with civic activist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/24\/human-rights-advocates-demand-release-of-political-prisoner-vardges-gaspari.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">political prisoner<\/span><\/a> Vardges Gaspari.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a move reminiscent of Gaspari&rsquo;s preferred form of civil disobedience, the demonstrators lay down on the ground in front of the gates of the president&rsquo;s office to condemn Gaspari&rsquo;s arrest, as well as the recent reports of the activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/24\/gaspari-subjected-to-torture-inhuman-treatment-in-prison-lawyer-says.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">having been subjected to torture<\/span><\/a> and other forms of ill-treatment in prison.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEpress.am has learned that as many as a dozen protesters have been detained and taken to the Arabkir police station.&nbsp;Demonstrators and activists who&#39;ve so far managed to avoid detention have taken to social media to urge more citizens to join the ongoing solidarity action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PnH0710Cj40?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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>A number of Armenian citizens gathered Wednesday evening outside the presidential palace in Yerevan to express their solidarity with civic activist, political prisoner Vardges Gaspari&#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":271236,"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\/271239"}],"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=271239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}