{"id":47615,"date":"2010-10-20T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/10\/20\/no-political-prisoners-in-armenia-says-armenian-mp\/"},"modified":"2010-10-20T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T02:04:00","slug":"no-political-prisoners-in-armenia-says-armenian-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/10\/20\/no-political-prisoners-in-armenia-says-armenian-mp.html","title":{"rendered":"No Political Prisoners in Armenia, Says Armenian MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine on what basis he makes such a statement.&#8221; This is how Republican Party of Armenia MP Hovhannes Sahakyan, at a press conference today, commented on Armenian National Congress leader Levon Ter-Petrossian&#8217;s statement at the rally yesterday that the international community&#8217;s patience is waning.\u00a0<\/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'\">Sahakyan also provided his opinion on the observation by Epress.am that days ago, the\u00a0Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) signed a document that not only stated there are political prisoners in Armenia, but also demanded the Armenian government immediate release them.\u00a0<\/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;This is a normal international process; many times there have been similar reports. I am saying that in Armenia there are no individuals imprisoned for their political views,&#8221; said the parliamentarian.\u00a0<\/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'\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Photo by report.am.<\/span><\/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>Republican Party of Armenia MP&#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":[10,11],"tags":[17374,17497,14575,13272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47615"}],"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=47615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}