{"id":275160,"date":"2016-10-19T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275160"},"modified":"2016-10-19T15:27:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:27:25","slug":"essential-witness-in-armenian-conscripts-death-dies-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/19\/essential-witness-in-armenian-conscripts-death-dies-in-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Essential&#8217; Witness in Armenian Conscript&#8217;s Death Dies in Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Vachagan Hayrapetyan, 28, a key witness in the investigation into the death of conscript <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/04\/26\/armenian-conscript-found-shot-in-head-in-military-truck.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">Hovhannes Petrosyan<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, died in a car crash on October 10, a few days after a confrontation with the dead soldier&#39;s legal successor, his father Vachagan Petrosyan, the Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office (HCAV), which represents V. Petrosyan&#39;s rights, said in a statement issued on Tuesday evening.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHayrapetyan, who was the commander of Hovhannes Petrosyan&#39;s unit, was killed when his car crashed into the Mercedes of Ijevan resident Artak Atabekyan on the Yerevan-Ijevan highway, as previously reported by Shamshyan.com.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the statement, HCAV said that during the confrontation &ldquo;Hayrapetyan gave testimony that was essential to the case,&rdquo; and now the organization &ldquo;has serious suspicions regarding the commander&#39;s death.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We expect Armenia&#39;s law enforcement authorities to conduct an unbiased and&nbsp;comprehensic&nbsp;investigation into the circumstances of the crash that killed Vachagan Hayrapetyan and to find out whether it had any relation to the case into Hovhannes Petrosyan&#39;s death,&rdquo; the statement read.<\/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>In the statement, HCAV said that during the confrontation \u201cHayrapetyan gave testimony that was essential to the case,\u201d and now the organization \u201chas serious suspicions regarding the commander&#8217;s death&#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":275157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10329,12009,65589,65590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275160"}],"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=275160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}