{"id":271254,"date":"2016-02-25T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271254"},"modified":"2016-02-25T16:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:06:47","slug":"armenian-lawmakers-petition-for-jailed-civic-activists-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/25\/armenian-lawmakers-petition-for-jailed-civic-activists-release.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Lawmakers Petition for Jailed Civic Activist&#8217;s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">More than two dozen Armenian parliamentarians have started a petition calling for the release of jailed civic activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/25\/i-crawled-out-of-the-cell-and-refused-to-go-back-gaspari-recounts-brutal-torture-in-prison.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Vardges Gaspari<\/span><\/a>, RFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) reported Thursday.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLawmakers from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Armenia&#39;s ruling Republican Party factions have not joined the petition since they &ldquo;have yet to assess the situation.&rdquo; Meanwhile, Prosperous Armenia Party faction member Elinar Vardanyan told Azatutyun.am am that the other MPs did not intend to wait and were going to send the petition to the country&#39;s Appeal Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHeritage faction member Aleksandr Arzumanyan said he, along with Elinar Vardanyan, has already discussed the issue with the US Ambassador in Armenia, as well as sent an appeal to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArzumanyan added that the political persecution against Vardges Gaspari &ldquo;is a phenomenon reminiscent of the Soviet era.&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>Heritage faction member Aleksandr Arzumanyan said he, along with Elinar Vardanyan, has already discussed the issue with the US Ambassador in Armenia, as well as sent an appeal to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights&#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":264595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58275,58274,14362,16528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271254"}],"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=271254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}