{"id":55747,"date":"2011-01-18T14:43:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T10:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=55747"},"modified":"2011-01-18T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T10:47:35","slug":"former-political-prisoners-submitted-letter-to-council-of-europe-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/18\/former-political-prisoners-submitted-letter-to-council-of-europe-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Political Prisoners Submitted Letter to Council of Europe Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators gathered in front of Armenia&#8217;s Marriott Hotel today in defense of political prisoners in the country marched toward the Council of Europe (CoE) Yerevan branch, where they submitted a letter addressed to CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, who is arrived to Armenia today.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, according to activists, has been signed by more than 50 former political prisoners, who are asking for the release of 8 current political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the demonstration organized by Armenia&#8217;s Committee for the Protection of Political Prisoners and Persecuted People was to raise Hammarberg&#8217;s awareness on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators were calling out &#8220;Freedom to Political Prisoners!&#8221;, &#8220;Shame!&#8221;, and &#8220;Serzhik, go away!&#8221; (referring to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan), as well as the names of political prisoners.<\/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>Demonstrators gathered in front of Armenia&#8217;s Marriott Hotel today in defense of political prisoners in the country marched&#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":55734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16342,12796,13272,20247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55747"}],"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=55747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}