{"id":273828,"date":"2016-07-20T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273828"},"modified":"2016-07-21T01:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:37:55","slug":"erebuni-gunmen-reaffirm-their-demand-for-regime-change-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/07\/20\/erebuni-gunmen-reaffirm-their-demand-for-regime-change-in-armenia.html","title":{"rendered":"Erebuni Gunmen Reaffirm Their Demand for Regime Change in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Pavel Manukyan, a key&nbsp;member of the &ldquo;Daredevils of Sasun&rdquo; armed group that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/07\/19\/turmoil-breaks-out-outside-seized-yerevan-police-station-after-gunmen-open-fire-into-air.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">has been occupying<\/span><\/a> a Yerevan police station since Sunday, reaffirmed in a phone conversation with an Armtimes.com reporter the group&rsquo;s demands for&nbsp;&quot;the change of criminal-oligarchic regime in Armenia and&nbsp;giving power back to the people.&quot;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;As for the release of Zhirayr Sefilyan and [other jailed oppositionists], it will come as a logical consequence of change of power,&rdquo; Manukyan said. He added that their main problem now &ndash; in addition to the lack of food &#8211; is that it&rsquo;s rather difficult to find out what&rsquo;s happening outside the seized building.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/io21bVBsc0A?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, an armed group affiliated with radical anti-government movement Founding Parliament stormed the police station in Yerevan&rsquo;s Erebuni district early on Sunday, taking hostages and demanding that jailed Founding Parliament leader Zhirayr Sefilyan be released. The gunmen subsequently announced that they also wanted Armenia&rsquo;s president Serzh Sargsyan to step down.<\/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>Pavel Manukyan, a senior member of the \u201cDaredevils of Sasun\u201d armed group that has been occupying a Yerevan police station since Sunday, reaffirmed in a phone conversation with an Armtimes.com reporter the group&#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":273819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65133,59734,64963,63373,15418,60846,31671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273828"}],"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=273828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}