{"id":283141,"date":"2018-01-10T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283141"},"modified":"2018-01-10T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T12:50:51","slug":"yerevan-gunman-adamant-on-continuing-hunger-strike-despite-deteriorating-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/01\/10\/yerevan-gunman-adamant-on-continuing-hunger-strike-despite-deteriorating-health.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Gunman adamant on Continuing Hunger Strike Despite Deteriorating Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The health condition of Armen Bilyan, a member of the Daredevils of Sasun armed group who has been on a hunger strike in prison for 23 days, worsened in the courtroom during a January 10 hearing, according to his lawyer Armine Fanyan, the life of her client \u201cis in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall, Daredevils of Sasun members Smbat Barseghyan and Armen Bilyan &#8211; both refusing food for 15 and 26 days, respectively &#8211; demand that they are transferred to Armavir jail from Yerevan\u2019s Nubarashen prison. In addition, Bilyan demands that he is provided with proper medical treatment in a civilian hospital.<\/p>\n<p>At the Wednesday court hearing, the judge read out a letter from the administration of Nubarashen, which said that the inmates \u201care provided with the necessary medical care, and there is no need for their transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Fanyan, in turn, stated that she \u201csaw a discrepancy\u201d between the response she had personally received from the prison administration and the letter read out by the judge; the former, she claimed, had said that the decision of transferring Bilyan to Armavir was to be issued by the body that carries out the proceedings, that is, the court.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his deteriorating health condition, Bilyan once again announced today that he had no intention of ending his hunger strike.<\/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>At the Wednesday court hearing, the judge read out a letter from the administration of Nubarashen, which said that the inmates \u201care provided with the necessary medical care&#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\/283141"}],"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=283141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}