{"id":271787,"date":"2016-03-22T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271787"},"modified":"2016-03-22T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T08:41:15","slug":"gaspari-alleges-one-of-his-prison-torturers-was-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/22\/gaspari-alleges-one-of-his-prison-torturers-was-murdered.html","title":{"rendered":"Gaspari Alleges One of His Prison Torturers Was &#8216;Murdered&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tCivic activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/26\/vardges-gaspari-to-be-released-from-jail-appeal-court-rules.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Vardges Gaspari<\/span><\/a> announced after a Monday hearing at the Shengavit district court that his former Nubarashen jail cellmate Mkhitar Sargsyan, whose death on March 1 was reported as suicide by law enforcement officials, did not actually kill himself but &ldquo;was murdered for not torturing me assiduously enough.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;This trial is of secondary importance to me because at the prison <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;\">where I was subjected to torture<\/span><\/a> one of the perpetrators, Mkhitar Sargsyan, was murdered. In all likelihood, he was killed for not torturing me assiduously enough. He then was hanged to make it look like a suicide. That&#39;s why these proceedings are unimportant. A man was killed, which proves that the judicial system and the government are working together,&rdquo; Gaspari stated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5VA-GOiYLw?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGaspari&#39;s lawyer, Tigran Yegoryan, told reporters that he had filed a motion for judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/17\/hearing-in-gaspari-case-continues-amid-heated-arguments.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Nelly Baghdasaryan<\/span><\/a>&#39;s recusal, citing the judge&#39;s &ldquo;numerous violations and impulsive unfounded decisions.&rdquo; Such &ldquo;unqualified&rdquo; officials, the lawyer added, &ldquo;should be kicked out&rdquo; of the judicial system.<\/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>Civic activist Vardges Gaspari announced after a Monday hearing at the Shengavit district court that his former Nubarashen jail cellmate Mkhitar Sargsyan, whose death on March 1 was reported as suicide&#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":269225,"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\/271787"}],"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=271787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}