{"id":282808,"date":"2017-11-22T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282808"},"modified":"2017-11-22T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:52:39","slug":"prisoner-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-protest-against-parole-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/11\/22\/prisoner-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-protest-against-parole-refusal.html","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner Goes On Hunger Strike to Protest Against Parole Refusal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harutyun Poghosyan, a prisoner of the Kosh Penitentiary in Armenia\u2019s Aragatsotn province, has gone on a hunger strike to protest against the refusal of his early release appeal and holding of a court hearing in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Ghlechyan, spokesperson for the penitentiary department at Armenia\u2019s Justice Ministry, told Epress.am on Wednesday that following the launch of the hunger strike, the prisoner was transferred to a separate cell. When asked by our reporter why Poghosyan had not been taken to his court hearing, the official said \u201cit is not our responsibility to take prisoners to and from courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing held at Yerevan\u2019s Kentron and Nork-Marash district court, judge Armen Bektashyan upheld the decision of the parole commission to refuse Harutyun Poghosyan\u2019s early release appeal.<\/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>Gor Ghlechyan, spokesperson for the penitentiary department at Armenia\u2019s Justice Ministry, told Epress.am on Wednesday that following the launch of the hunger&#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":[66033,65966],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282808"}],"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=282808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}