{"id":277209,"date":"2017-01-12T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=277209"},"modified":"2017-01-12T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T09:02:57","slug":"authorities-ignoring-lawyers-motion-over-death-of-armavir-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/01\/12\/authorities-ignoring-lawyers-motion-over-death-of-armavir-prisoner.html","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Ignoring Lawyer&#8217;s Motion Over Death of Armavir Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authority conducting the proceedings into the death of Armavir prison inmate <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/09\/07\/young-man-found-hanged-in-armavir-jail-was-not-predisposed-to-suicide-psychiatric-assessment-shows.html\">Anzor Karapetyan<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on January 4, 2016, has for months been disregarding a motion filed by his relatives&#8217; lawyer with a request to determine whether the penitentiary had performed all its statutory obligations to preserve Karapetyan&#8217;s life when in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motion was filed back in September, but I have yet to receive any response. I sent another appeal on Wednesday to be informed of the steps the authorities have taken to date,\u201d lawyer Ani Chatinyan said in a conversation with Epress.am today.<\/p>\n<p>Anzor Karapetyan, <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/01\/20\/family-of-armavir-man-who-allegedly-killed-himself-in-jail-gets-visit-from-threatening-pair.html\">as previously reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, participated in a fight on December 21, 2015 in the Armenian town of Armavir. He then turned himself in to the police and was arrested on the spot. On January 3, a court ruled to send Karapetyan to Armavir jail. The next day, prison officials handed the young man&#8217;s body over to his relatives, saying that he had committed suicide.<\/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>The motion was filed back in September, but I have yet to receive any response. I sent another appeal on Wednesday to be informed of the steps the authorities have taken to date&#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":277195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65966],"tags":[66188,63636,66189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277209"}],"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=277209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}