{"id":272944,"date":"2016-06-01T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=272944"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:30:14","slug":"armenian-oppositionist-claims-in-court-he-is-being-framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/06\/01\/armenian-oppositionist-claims-in-court-he-is-being-framed.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Oppositionist Claims in Court He Is Being Framed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tA Yerevan district court Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan, chairing the trial against opposition activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/11\/armenian-opposition-activist-denied-release-from-pretrial-custody.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Gevorg Safaryan<\/span><\/a>, granted at a June 1 hearing a motion filed by defense lawyer Tigran Hayrapetyan to call 13 members of Founding Parliament anti-government movement as witnesses in the case.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, Safaryan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/01\/07\/human-rights-defenders-name-arrested-opposition-activist-first-political-prisoner-of-2016.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">was arrested<\/span><\/a> on New Year&#39;s Eve after a scuffle with law enforcement officers on Yerevan&rsquo;s Freedom Square and was subsequently charged with assaulting police officer Gegham Khachatryan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCurrently, only 10 police officers and 3 employees of a nearby underground garage are set to testify in court; meanwhile, according to the lawyer, there were dozens of other people who witnessed the incident and claimed during pre-trial questioning that it had been the police officer who attacked Safaryan during the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1safarayn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"1safarayn\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272937\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1safarayn.jpg\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1safarayn.jpg 500w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1safarayn-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe defendant, for his part, insisted that prosecution simply &ldquo;filtered out&rdquo; all the witnesses who had testified in his favour. &ldquo;They are trying to frame politically motivated case against me,&rdquo; Safaryan told the court.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the next hearing the judge will review a video footage of the incident before proceeding to witness testimonies. &ldquo;After reviewing the footage, the court will also see that these are cooked up charges and that prosecution has lined up witness testimonies to match the footage,&rdquo; lawyer Hayrapetyan said.<\/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>Currently, only 10 police officers and 3 employees of a nearby underground garage are set to testify in court; meanwhile, according to the lawyer, there were dozens of other people who witnessed the incident &#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":272938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52201,56174,12351,63373,12928,51376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272944"}],"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=272944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}