{"id":46958,"date":"2010-10-08T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/10\/08\/hak-activists-demand-the-liberation-of-freedom-square\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T06:30:00","slug":"hak-activists-demand-the-liberation-of-freedom-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/10\/08\/hak-activists-demand-the-liberation-of-freedom-square.html","title":{"rendered":"HAK Activists Demand the Liberation of Freedom Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Today, Armenian National Congress youth held a march dedicated to liberating Freedom Square.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The march began from Koryun Street then headed toward Yerevan City Hall. During the march, participants were calling out &#8220;Free, independent Opera,&#8221; in reference to the familiar slogan &#8220;Free, independent Armenia&#8221; but adapted for the particular situation (Freedom Square is on the grounds of Yerevan&#8217;s Opera building).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">March participants informed Yerevan residents that there&#8217;s one more added to the list of political prisoners in Armenia: Freedom Square. Reaching city hall, demonstrators were greeted with numerous police officers, as well as a number of artistic groups, who were most likely there because of the upcoming Yerevan-Erebuni celebrations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;Freedom Square is held captive, and Chorni Gago [&#8220;Black Gago,&#8221; a derogatory name used to refer to Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan] and his team, hiding in this building, have committed to doing Serzh Sargsyan&#8217;s bidding. So let&#8217;s fight for the liberation of Freedom Square,&#8221; said the youth to those gathered at the city hall grounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">After some time, the youth returned to the HAK office, shouting their slogans along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">On the way back, passing by the RA General Prosecutor&#8217;s office, demonstrators exclaimed that 14 political prisoners are behind bars because of Aghvan Hovsepyan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">A number of police officers followed demonstrators along their march, but did not interfere.&nbsp;<\/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>Today, Armenian National Congress youth&#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":[10,5],"tags":[10341,12373,10340,11546,15118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46958"}],"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=46958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}