{"id":274618,"date":"2016-09-08T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=274618"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T10:22:50","slug":"vanadzor-man-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-demand-solution-to-housing-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/09\/08\/vanadzor-man-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-demand-solution-to-housing-issue.html","title":{"rendered":"Vanadzor Man Goes on Hunger Strike to Demand Solution to Housing Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Martin Ohanyan, a resident of the city of Vanadzor in Armenia&#39;s Lori province, went on a hunger strike on September 6 to demand that Vanadzor mayor Samvel Darbinyan find a solution to his housing problem. The protester claims that back in 2003 Darbinyan sold the territory where his family has been living in a small house since 1993.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We, along with others affected by the [1988 Spitak earthquake] have been living in a condominium since 1993. We were told to live there until our housing issue was resolved. We tried to buy these territories and build houses but [authorities] insisted that the land was not for sale. Then we found out that the area had already been sold,&rdquo; Ohanyan told Epress.am Thursday, adding that he did not blame the buyer at all since &ldquo;he has also been set up.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;My family&#39;s rights have been violated; I&#39;m a sick man and I have no other means to fight other than [going on] a hunger strike. Let Darbinyan resolve this issue with his own resources,&rdquo; the protester said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a previous conversation with a representative of the Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office, Ohanyan said that the last time he tried to appeal to the Vanadzor mayor,&nbsp;Darbinyan threatened to &ldquo;beat him up.&rdquo;<\/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>We, along with others affected by the [1988 Spitak earthquake] have been living in a condominium since 1993. We were told to live there until our housing issue was resolved. We tried to buy these territories &#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":274613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65979],"tags":[65375,12351,65376,65377,11162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274618"}],"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=274618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}