{"id":284849,"date":"2018-04-20T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T10:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=284849"},"modified":"2018-04-21T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:26:52","slug":"demonstrators-in-yerevan-detained-by-plainclothes-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/04\/20\/demonstrators-in-yerevan-detained-by-plainclothes-police.html","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrators in Yerevan Detained by Plainclothes Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"\u0548\u057d\u057f\u056b\u056f\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u055d \u057d\u056f\u0566\u0562\u056b\u0581 \u0563\u056c\u056d\u056b\u056f\u0578\u0580, \u0570\u0565\u057f\u0578 \u0563\u0561\u0566\u0561\u0566\u0561\u056e\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TIVI0THzpKs?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Civilian-clothed people who detain demonstrators are police officers, and the National Police carries full responsible for their actions, head of the police press service Ashot Aharonyan wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Article 12 of the RA Law On Police, however, when ensuring public order, police officers must be in a uniform, with ID insignia attached to a clearly visible part.<\/p>\n<p>Epress.am reached out to the police press service, seeking a law provision citation which would allow people in plain clothes or without insignia to detain citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you read the post? Consider it an official statement,\u201d police spokesperson Zarzand Gabrielyan told us.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Harutyun Baghdasaryan, meanwhile, confirmed in a phone conversation with our correspondent that the law requires that the identity of a policemen be known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe so-called plainclothes police officers are literally kidnapping the people. Insignia is obligatory when carrying out a detention. Good for the police to carry the responsibility for these people, but I need to know who I\u2019m being detained by,\u201d the lawyer argued.<\/p>\n<p>Note, police officers with no insignia have today been spotted detaining people in various parts of Yerevan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284844\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/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>Lawyer Harutyun Baghdasaryan, meanwhile, confirmed in a phone conversation with our correspondent that the law requires that the identity of a policemen be known&#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":[66030],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284849"}],"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=284849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}