{"id":61973,"date":"2011-02-03T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=61973"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T06:23:19","slug":"surprised-armenian-national-congress-request-for-liberty-square-rally-again-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/03\/surprised-armenian-national-congress-request-for-liberty-square-rally-again-denied.html","title":{"rendered":"Surprised? Armenian National Congress&#8217; Request for Liberty Square Rally Again Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yerevan City Hall once again denied the Armenian National Congress&#8217; request for a permit to hold a rally in Liberty Square on Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition group had submitted its request on Jan. 31 to hold a rally on Feb. 11 and 18 from 4 pm to 10 pm, followed by a march\u00a0 along the route Liberty Square \u2013 Mashtots Blvd. \u2013 Amiryan St. \u2013 Republic Square \u2013 Nalbandyan St. \u2013 Tumanyan St. and back to Liberty Square.<\/p>\n<p>As noted on the Yerevan City Hall website, the municipality denied the group&#8217;s request for the Feb. 18 rally due to other events taking place on that day \u2014 events that were approved by the city on Dec. 29, 2010 and Jan. 27, 2011, according to the statement by the municipality. Note, the request for a rally on Feb. 11 has not yet been discussed in city hall.<\/p>\n<p>Yerevan City Hall advised the group to hold their rally in front of the Matenadaran (Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) on the stated days and times.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, on perhaps dozens of occasions, Yerevan City Hall, citing various reasons, denied the Armenian National Congress&#8217; request for rallies in Liberty Square. Each time, the municipality suggested the area in front of the Matenadaran as an alternative place for the opposition bloc and its supporters to gather.<\/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>Yerevan City Hall once again denied the Armenian National Congress&#8217; request for a permit to hold a rally in Liberty Square on Feb. 18.<br \/>\n<!-- 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":61861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10340,11546,11129,15226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973"}],"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=61973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}