{"id":280436,"date":"2017-05-12T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T08:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=280436"},"modified":"2017-05-12T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T08:58:35","slug":"son-of-former-mayor-of-gyumri-reportedly-beat-up-multiple-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/05\/12\/son-of-former-mayor-of-gyumri-reportedly-beat-up-multiple-people.html","title":{"rendered":"Son of Former Mayor of Gyumri Reportedly Beat Up Multiple People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Spartak Ghukasyan, son of the former mayor of Gyumri and newly-elected MP Vardan Ghukasyan, badly beat up multiple employees of a gas station owned by his family. Among those assaulted by Ghukasyan, according to Zhoghovurd newspaper, was Aghasi Janoyan, nephew of the deputy director of the Shirak branch of Gazprom Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young man&#8217;s eye is so damaged that he could go blind,\u201d the paper writes.<\/p>\n<p>Note, this is not the first violent incident involving the Ghukasyan family; in 2016, in particular, local media reported that Vardan and Spartak Ghukasyans <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/2016\/02\/17\/%d5%a3%d5%b5%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4%d6%80%d5%ab%d5%ab-%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%ad%d5%af%d5%ab%d5%b6-%d6%84%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%a1%d6%84%d5%a1%d5%ba%d5%a5%d5%bf%d5%a8-%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%a4%d5%b8%d6%82-%d6%87-%d5%a9%d5%ab.html\">had beaten up<\/a><\/span> <em>[ARM]<\/em><\/strong> Olympic Armenia sports union coach Garik Baghdasaryan. Over the past several years, Spartak Ghukasyan has been <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/01\/27\/criminal-case-launched-against-son-of-former-mayor-of-gyumri-source.html\">detained<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by Gyumri police <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/05\/gyumri-mayors-son-arrested.html\">at least twice<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/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>A few days ago, Spartak Ghukasyan, son of the former mayor of Gyumri and newly-elected MP Vardan Ghukasyan, badly beat up multiple employees of a gas station &#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":[65979],"tags":[66997,52879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280436"}],"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=280436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}