{"id":283635,"date":"2018-02-13T17:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283635"},"modified":"2018-02-13T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:24:15","slug":"shirak-professor-ends-hunger-strike-does-not-intend-to-stop-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/02\/13\/shirak-professor-ends-hunger-strike-does-not-intend-to-stop-fighting.html","title":{"rendered":"Shirak Professor Ends Hunger Strike; Does Not Intend to Stop Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History and philosophy professor Hovhannes Khorikyan has ended his hunger strike following calls from students and friends. Nonetheless, Khorikyan told Epress.am today that he would continue to fight against Shirak State University rector Sahak Minasyan\u2019s arbitrary actions and make sure that his concerns are addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/02\/13\/shirak-university-students-boycott-classes-to-support-hunger-striking-professor.html\">began boycotting classes<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. I couldn\u2019t let them continue,\u201d Khorikyan added. The professor had gone on a hunger strike to \u201cinvite the attention of the public to the atrocities committed by rector Sahak Minasyan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past days, the rector never tried to initiate a meeting the hunger-striking professor. Only once was he approached by deputy rector Anahit Farmanyan, who urged Khorikyan to think about his health and stop the 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>Over the past days, the rector never tried to initiate a meeting the hunger-striking professor. Only once was he approached by deputy rector Anahit Farmanyan, who urged Khorikyan&#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":[66049,65979],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283635"}],"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=283635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}