{"id":275220,"date":"2016-10-24T15:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275220"},"modified":"2016-10-24T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:45:58","slug":"vardenis-man-forcibly-admitted-to-psychiatric-hospital-after-staging-protest-outside-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/24\/vardenis-man-forcibly-admitted-to-psychiatric-hospital-after-staging-protest-outside-government.html","title":{"rendered":"Vardenis Man Forcibly Admitted to Psychiatric Hospital After Staging Protest Outside Government Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Vardenis resident <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/20\/former-gold-mine-worker-sews-mouth-shut-to-protest-unfair-dismissal.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">Armen Yeranosyan<\/span><\/a><\/strong> was forcibly taken to a mental institution on October 22 by police officers after staging a 5-day hunger strike and stitching up his lips outside the Government building in Yerevan in protest of being unfairly fired from his job. In a phone conversation with Epress.am today, the distraught man said he was being kept in the Nubarashen psychiatric hospital against his will where he is periodically being given injections.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;They are forcibly injecting me with something. I&#39;m numb and tired; I don&#39;t understand what&#39;s happening to me. Police officers told me I was insane and brought me here, while the director of the hospital says they are going to keep me here until the end of the week,&rdquo; Yeranosyan told our reporter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe man added that he has applied for help&nbsp;to the office of Armenia&#39;s Ombudsman but has yet to receive a response. &ldquo;Please, just tell [the doctors] to stop giving me injections,&rdquo; he then pleaded.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEpress.am has contacted the mental institution for comment, but to no avail. &ldquo;We don&#39;t give comments to random people; you have to come to the hospital with proper documentation,&rdquo; they replied.<\/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>Vardenis resident Armen Yeranosyan was forcibly taken to a mental institution on October 22 by police officers after staging 5-day hunger strike and stitching up his lips outside the Government building in Yerevan in protest &#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":275177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275220"}],"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=275220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}