{"id":280434,"date":"2017-05-12T12:32:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T08:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=280434"},"modified":"2017-05-12T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T08:34:22","slug":"yerevan-mayors-staff-members-take-away-reporters-phone-to-remove-evidence-of-bribery-video-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/05\/12\/yerevan-mayors-staff-members-take-away-reporters-phone-to-remove-evidence-of-bribery-video-restored.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Mayor&#8217;s Staff Members Take Away Reporter&#8217;s Phone to Remove Evidence of Bribery; Video Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of May 11, Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper reporter Anna Zakharyan witnessed on her way home how bribes of 20,000 drams ($41) and pre-ticked ballot papers for Sunday\u2019s mayoral elections were being distributed at the campaign headquarters of Yerevan acting mayor and mayor candidate Taron Margaryan on Yerevan&#8217;s Kurghinyan Street, Armtimes.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>When the reporter began shooting the process with her phone, the \u201carea good guys\u201d forcibly took away her phone and deleted the entire contents of the device, including Zakharyan&#8217;s personal messages and contacts. Before returning the phone to the owner, Armtimes.com writes, the young men wiped it with a napkin to remove their fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey gave it back with a napkin, and of course the fingerprints had been wiped away. I refused to take the phone and went home. They followed me, opened my door and threw the phone inside, again with a napkin,\u201d Zakharyan recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the reporter managed to restore the video, which was subsequently published on Armtimes.com.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4vnoSXNYIc?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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>They gave it back with a napkin, and of course the fingerprints had been wiped away. I refused to take the phone and went home. They followed me, opened&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66030],"tags":[66996,19753,19759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280434"}],"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=280434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}