{"id":272637,"date":"2016-05-12T16:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=272637"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:23:53","slug":"prison-authorities-plan-provocations-against-hunger-striking-inmate-human-rights-activists-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/05\/12\/prison-authorities-plan-provocations-against-hunger-striking-inmate-human-rights-activists-claim.html","title":{"rendered":"Prison Authorities &#8216;Plan Provocations&#8217; Against Hunger-Striking Inmate, Human Rights Activists Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHuman rights activists from Armenia&#39;s Helsinki Association report that &ldquo;provocations are being planned&rdquo; against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/05\/06\/armenian-prisoner-with-parkinson%E2%80%99s-on-hunger-strike-for-11-days-might-be-released-on-health-grounds.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Hrachya Gevorgyan<\/span><\/a>, an inmate of Yerevan&#39;s Nubarashen prison whose hunger strike to protest the lack of proper medical care by the prison staff has now entered its third week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHelsinki Association representative Arman Veziryan told Epress.am that on Wednesday evening two other prisoners were transferred to Gevorgyan&#39;s cell, after which there was a fire in the cell, followed quickly by the disappearance of one of the newcomers. &ldquo;He was an informant, and [the fire] was a failed attempt by [the prison authorities] at some trick. They are trying to somehow set Hrach up,&rdquo; Veziryan alleged. Meanwhile, he added that the prisoner&#39;s health continues to deteriorate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHrachya Gevorgyan, who was sentenced in November, 2015, to 8 years in prison for hostage-taking, violence against a representative of authorities, and extortion, is suffering from chronic hepatitis C, chronic bronchitis, Parkinson&#39;s disease, and a pulmonary arterial hypertension; when eating or taking care of personal needs, the prisoner has to rely on the help of other inmates.<\/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>Helsinki Association representative Arman Veziryan told Epress.am that on Wednesday evening two other prisoners were transferred to Gevorgyan&#8217;s cell, after which there was a fire in the cell, followed quickly by&#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":272582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32082,53166,15655,17992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272637"}],"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=272637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}