{"id":62688,"date":"2011-02-04T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=62688"},"modified":"2011-02-04T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:32:55","slug":"armenias-first-ombudsman-hopes-next-one-calls-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/04\/armenias-first-ombudsman-hopes-next-one-calls-it-like-it-is.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s First Ombudsman Hopes Next One Calls it Like it Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The position of Human Rights Defender of Armenia being vacant for 5 days is a violation of the law, said Heritage Party MP and Armenia&#8217;s first ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>As for the successor to the current ombudsman, Alaverdyan said she hoped that he or she would &#8220;not be subjected to&#8221; and would not follow &#8220;the observed trend of having a more passive role in relations with ruling authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, there are political prisoners in Armenia,&#8221; said Alaverdyan, noting that the former human rights defender avoided using this term, which Alaverdyan considered a concession.<\/p>\n<p>According to the former ombudsman, this activity becomes psychologically more difficult for those who have had direct ties with the ruling authorities.<\/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>&#8220;For example, there are political prisoners in Armenia,&#8221; said MP Larisa Alaverdyan, noting that the former human rights defender avoided using this term, which&#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":62653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10658,16839,14992,15584,13272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688"}],"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=62688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}