{"id":282597,"date":"2017-10-27T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282597"},"modified":"2017-10-27T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:48:02","slug":"yerevan-journalist-threatened-after-article-about-former-head-of-national-security-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/10\/27\/yerevan-journalist-threatened-after-article-about-former-head-of-national-security-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Journalist Threatened After Article About Former Head of National Security Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly Vanadzor office (HCAV) has filed a report with the General Prosecutor\u2019s office about recent threats of violence posted on Facebook against Yerevan-based journalist Mher Arshakyan. The following comment was left by a user on Arshakyan\u2019s article &#8211; entitled \u201cGorik Hakobyan: the Monster\u201d &#8211; about former head of National Security Service Gorik Hakobyan: \u201cEvery morning before you leave the house, make sure to hug your family tightly; you will not get away with this article\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview for CivilNet, Arshakyan suggested that the threat might be realized any minute \u201caccidentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel a danger not in the sense that I&#8217;m being followed or watched: I fear that this threat might be realized \u2018accidentally,\u2019 as part of some criminal incident on the street in an innocuous moment and \u2018by mistake,\u2019 Arshakyan said.<\/p>\n<p>The General Prosecutor\u2019s office has forwarded the HCAV appeal to the National Police department for combating organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights organization reports that the author of the comment was registered on Facebook under a name written in Greek letters. They have since deleted both the comment and the profile. HCAV points out that \u201cthe threat is more than real and aims to intimidate the journalist, which is a criminally prosecutable act.\u201d HCAV demands that a criminal case be opened, and that the author of the threat be caught and called to responsibility.<\/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> HCAV points out that \u201cthe threat is more than real and aims to intimidate the journalist, which is a criminally prosecutable act&#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":[66041],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282597"}],"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=282597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}