{"id":284648,"date":"2018-04-16T20:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=284648"},"modified":"2018-04-16T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:43:11","slug":"video-riot-police-use-special-means-against-demonstrators-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/04\/16\/video-riot-police-use-special-means-against-demonstrators-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Riot Police Use Special Means Against Demonstrators in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday afternoon, riot police used force and special means to prevent <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/04\/16\/civil-disobedience-continues-in-yerevan-as-demonstrators-block-central-streets-breaking.html\">thousands of demonstrators<\/a><\/strong><\/span> led by opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan from approaching the National Assembly building on Yerevan\u2019s Baghramyan Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 4 dozen demonstrators and 6 police officers suffered stun injuries of varying degrees after riot police throw stun grenade into the protesters to disperse them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photoinjury.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284646\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photoinjury.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Yerevan in an uprising against Serzh Sargsyan\u2019s expected appointment as Armenia\u2019s new Prime Minister. Groups of demonstrators have blocked off a number of central streets in the capital and <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/04\/16\/pashinyan-to-hold-rally-to-discuss-further-actions.html\">intend to<\/a><\/strong><\/span> subsequently occupy the area around the National Assembly building to prevent the Tuesday PM elections at the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqSokgl4TSk?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFW19uerI3s?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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 least 4 dozen demonstrators and 6 police officers suffered stun injuries of varying degrees after riot police throw stun grenade into the protesters to disperse them&#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":284647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,66030],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284648"}],"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=284648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}