{"id":274979,"date":"2016-10-05T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=274979"},"modified":"2016-10-05T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:45:53","slug":"head-of-armenian-evangelical-church-beaten-by-newly-elected-city-council-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/05\/head-of-armenian-evangelical-church-beaten-by-newly-elected-city-council-member.html","title":{"rendered":"Head of Armenian Evangelical Church Beaten by Newly-Elected City Council Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Rafayel Gevorgyan, the head of the Armenian Evangelical Church of Vanadzor, was severely beaten on October 4 by member of Armenian Renaissance party <em>(formerly known as Rule of Law)<\/em> Arkady Peleshyan, Collaboration for Democracy chairman Stepan Danielyan said on Facebook today. Note, Peleshyan was elected into the city council of Vanadzor, Armenia&#39;s third largest city, after the local elections that were held in several hundred Armenian communities on Sunday, October 2.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Peleshyan went to the church accompanied by 15 representatives of his pre-election gang, crossed himself and told Rafayel Grigoryan that all his companions were people of faith; he then suggested that he and Grigoryan talk&nbsp;privately in [Grigoryan&#8217;s] office. Upon entering the room, Peleshyan, without any explanation, began to cruelly beat the 66-year-old man, hitting him solely on the face. The beating stopped only after the intervention of Grigoryan&#39;s daughter and his son-in-law, who managed to somehow push aside Peleshyan&#39;s companions and enter the room. The beating was accompanied by the crudest insults and death threats,&rdquo; Danielyan wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe added that the incident was most likely related to the Sunday local elections in Vanadzor. A day before the voting, on the &ldquo;day of silence,&rdquo; supporters of the Armenian Renaissance candidate went to the church &ndash; where a mass was being held &ndash; and tried to distribute propaganda leaflets among the assembled.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Rafayel Grigoryan did not allow them to, citing the law [&hellip;] This must have offended the members of the organization promising rule of law and a renaissance&nbsp;in Armenia,&rdquo; Stepan Danielyan concluded.<\/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>He added that the incident was most likely related to the Sunday local elections in Vanadzor. A day before the voting, on the \u201cday of silence,\u201d supporters of the Armenian Renaissance candidate went to the church&#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":274967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65522,65521,65523,15143,11162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274979"}],"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=274979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}