{"id":273354,"date":"2016-06-24T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273354"},"modified":"2016-06-24T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:14:16","slug":"president-knows-armenians-think-he-is-a-murderer-outspoken-activist-holds-sit-in-on-sargsyans-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/06\/24\/president-knows-armenians-think-he-is-a-murderer-outspoken-activist-holds-sit-in-on-sargsyans-route.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;President Knows Armenians Think He Is a Murderer:&#8217; Outspoken Activist Holds Sit-In on Sargsyan&#8217;s Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian civil rights 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> carried out Friday morning a sit-down demonstration at the Baghramyan-Demirchyan intersection in Yerevan &#8211; Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan&#39;s usual route to office &ndash; to &ldquo;express my opinion as an Armenian citizen: I believe that Sargsyan is a vile bastard and a murderer and I just want him to know that.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn Thursday evening, Gaspari carried out a similar demonstration by laying down outside the president&#39;s house on Proshyan street: the outspoken activist, who regularly lies down to protest against the judicial and political system in Armenia, held a poster depicting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/01\/the-victims-of-march-1-2008.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">those killed<\/span><\/a> during the post-election clashes in 2008, claiming that Sargsyan was responsible for the deaths.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I&#39;m powerless, I know that I&#39;m unable to fight against his arbitrariness, but nevertheless, I will not tolerate him; I do not respect or recognize him as a president. I insist that he is a murderer,&rdquo; Gaspari said yesterday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMllZLz6p-A?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring today&#39;s action, Gaspari was surrounded by 4 police officers who, in response to an Epress.am reporter&#39;s inquiry, claimed that it was the exact spot where they usually carried out their service and the activist &ldquo;was the one to come and sit behind us.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1gaspari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"1gaspari\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-273350\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1gaspari.jpg\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1gaspari.jpg 450w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1gaspari-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGaspari, on the other hand, insisted that the law enforcement officers were deliberately putting him out of sight to prevent Sargsyan from seeing him on his way to work. &ldquo;As if Sargsyan doesn&#39;t know that Armenian citizens think he is a bastard and a murderer,&rdquo; Gaspari told our reporter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe police officers moved away from Gaspari as soon as Sargsyan&#39;s motorcade passed the intersection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-pJTgatgv0?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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>On Thursday evening, Gaspari carried out a similar demonstration by laying down outside the president&#8217;s house on Proshyan street: the outspoken activist, who regularly lies down to protest against the judicial and &#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":273351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58275,58274,14362,16528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273354"}],"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=273354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}