{"id":273977,"date":"2016-07-24T23:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273977"},"modified":"2016-07-25T01:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T21:05:41","slug":"yerevan-gunmen-set-police-car-on-fire-as-act-of-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/07\/24\/yerevan-gunmen-set-police-car-on-fire-as-act-of-protest.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Gunmen Set Police Car on Fire as \u2018Act of Protest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMembers of the &ldquo;Daredevils of Sasun&rdquo; armed group set on fire a police car at the seized police headquarters in Yerevan&rsquo;s Erebuni distric on Sunday &ldquo;as an act of protest,&rdquo; Founding Parliament representative Alek Yenigomshyan announced during a late Sunday assembly on the street leading to the occupied building.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Yenigomshyan, the gunmen were protesting against the authorities&rsquo; failure to provide their injured comrade with medical assistance, the fact that their electricity has been cut off and that they haven&rsquo;t gotten any food for more than 22 hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring his speech, Yenigomshyan urged law enforcement officers not to obey &ldquo;illegal orders&rdquo; and to refrain from raising a hand against their own people.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShortly after Yenigomshyan&rsquo;s announcement, Armenia&rsquo;s police also released a statement to report that the gunmen who have been occupying the police headquarters since last Sunday today set fire to one of the law enforcement agency&rsquo;s service cars. &ldquo;We urge the armed group not to undertake any acts that could endanger public health and safety and cause tensions to escalate,&rdquo; officials 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>According to Yenigomshyan, the gunmen were protesting against the authorities\u2019 failure to provide their injured comrade with medical assistance, the fact that their electricity has been cut off and that they haven\u2019t &#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":273975,"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\/273977"}],"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=273977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}