{"id":283630,"date":"2018-02-13T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283630"},"modified":"2018-02-13T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:06:56","slug":"shirak-university-students-boycott-classes-to-support-hunger-striking-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/02\/13\/shirak-university-students-boycott-classes-to-support-hunger-striking-professor.html","title":{"rendered":"Shirak University Students Boycott Classes to Support Hunger-Striking Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several dozen students of the Shirak State University are boycotting classes to support the hunger strike of their history and philosophy professor Hovhannes Khorikyan. Recall, the professor went on a <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/02\/12\/history-professor-in-shirak-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-fight-rectors-atrocities.html\">hunger strike<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Monday \u201cto invite the attention of the public to rector Sahak Minasyan\u2019s atrocious conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gyumriunivercity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-283620\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gyumriunivercity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boycotting students have written an open letter to rector Minasyan and Education and Science Minister Levon Mkrtchyan, demanding \u00a0that they address the concerns raised by Khorikyan and fulfill his demands. In addition, the students call on the rector to refrain from making discrediting statements about Khorikyan and \u201cto appreciate his high personal and professional qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students have also put forward a set of their own demands to the rector, including the provision of systematic tuition discounts to academically successful students and a timely payment of overdue academic benefits.<\/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>The boycotting students have written an open letter to rector Minasyan and Education and Science Minister Levon Mkrtchyan, demanding \u00a0that they address the concerns raised&#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":283624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66049,65979],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283630"}],"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=283630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}