{"id":67432,"date":"2011-02-17T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=67432"},"modified":"2011-02-17T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T09:51:41","slug":"police-surround-gyumri-drivers-organize-spontaneous-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/17\/police-surround-gyumri-drivers-organize-spontaneous-rally.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Surround Gyumri, Drivers Organize Spontaneous Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting drivers of cars with Georgian plates and their supporters contain to be surrounded by police along Sayat-Nova St. in Armenia&#8217;s second-largest city, Gyumri. Police are prohibiting protestors from their plan to drive to Yerevan and continue their protest outside the government building.<\/p>\n<p>This was conveyed to Epress.am by Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan, who is currently in Gyumri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this moment, we are surrounded, and people have decided to hold a rally at 1:30 pm today at the square on Sayat-Nova street,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier, drivers from Gyumri and Vanadzor planned to protest by driving to Yerevan; however, the road was and continues to remain blocked by police.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking to Epress.am was Armenian National Congress (HAK) Gyumri area coordinator Ashot Zakaryan, who said that HAK members will also be participating in the rally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically a spontaneous rally has been organized and HAK will be actively participating,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, since Feb. 5, a few dozen drivers have been protesting the high customs tariffs on cars imported to Armenia from neighboring Georgia.<\/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>Protesting drivers of cars with Georgian plates and their supporters contain to be surrounded by police along Sayat-Nova Blvd. in Armenia&#8217;s&#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":67420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12128,14237,21341,11162,17082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67432"}],"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=67432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}