{"id":271926,"date":"2016-03-30T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271926"},"modified":"2016-03-30T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:24:10","slug":"lifer%e2%80%99s-motion-dismissed-by-yerevan-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/30\/lifer%e2%80%99s-motion-dismissed-by-yerevan-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Lifer\u2019s Motion Dismissed by Yerevan Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe first instance court of Yerevan&rsquo;s Erebuni and Nubarashen administrative districts rejected Wednesday a motion filed by Nubarashen jail prisoner Artur Mkrtchayn who was sentenced 20 years ago to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering 5 fellow serviceman during military service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe life convict was appealing against two administrative reprimands that had been imposed on him for possession of a mobile phone in prison and because of which the penal institution has been refusing for five years to consider his applications for parole.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn his final speech, Mkrtchyan said that a just resolution of the issue was more important to him than his release. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sick and tired of injustice; I want this issue to be justly resolved because I find it absurd that a person can be deprived of a chance for parole simply for keeping in touch with his family. It&rsquo;s not just for me; in three months the reprimand will no longer be valid, and I&rsquo;ll be able to apply for parole, but the phenomenon itself is simply wrong,&rdquo; the lifer said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an interview with Epress.am, Mkrtchyan&rsquo;s lawyer, Robert Revazyan, talked about their intention to appeal the court decision, claiming that the court should have at least found the first reprimand invalid due to it having been issued &ldquo;illegally.&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>The life convict was appealing against two administrative reprimands that had been imposed on him for possession of a mobile phone in prison and because of which the penal institution has been refusing for five years to consid&#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":271921,"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\/271926"}],"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=271926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}