{"id":282757,"date":"2017-11-16T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T09:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282757"},"modified":"2017-11-16T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T09:26:53","slug":"armenian-oppositionist-reportedly-beaten-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/11\/16\/armenian-oppositionist-reportedly-beaten-in-jail.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Oppositionist Reportedly Beaten in Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gevorg Safaryan, a member of New Armenia and Founding Parliament anti-government movements who was convicted by a Yerevan district court of violence against a representative of authorities and sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment earlier this year, was severely beaten by his cellmates on November 15, the Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor office (HCAV) said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/01\/18\/human-rights-advocates-declare-armenian-opposition-activist-prisoner-of-conscience.html\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Safaryan<\/span><\/a><\/strong> was arrested on January 1, 2016, and subsequently charged with assaulting police officer Gegham Khachatryan, after several dozen members of Founding Parliament and New Armenia opposition movements scuffled with police as they tried to celebrate the New Year on Yerevan\u2019s Freedom Square.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHCAV strongly condemns the violent attack against Sargsyan and states that the authorities of Armenia bear the entire responsibility for any damage to his health or life,\u201d the human rights organization\u2019s statement reads.<\/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 strongly condemns the violent attack against Sargsyan and states that the authorities of Armenia bear the entire responsibility for any damage to his health or life&#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":[65966],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282757"}],"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=282757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}