{"id":70264,"date":"2011-02-25T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T08:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=70264"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:49:03","slug":"armenian-mp-sues-yet-another-local-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/25\/armenian-mp-sues-yet-another-local-newspaper.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian MP Sues Yet Another Local Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) MP Tigran Arzakantsyan has filed a lawsuit with the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork Marash Administrative Districts against local daily Yerkir (&#8220;Country&#8221;), claiming that the newspaper has sullied his honor and dignity in an article as part of a series titled &#8220;131 faces and masks&#8221; in Yerkir&#8217;s Jan. 13 issue, reports local daily Aravot (&#8220;Morning&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The MP is demanding 3 million 568 thousand AMD (about $9,775 US) in compensation: 3 million AMD (about $8,219 US) for damages for insult and libel; 500,000 AMD (about $1,370 US) for lawyer fees incurred; and 68,000 AMD (about $186 US) for court expenses. Judge R. Apinyan has ruled that the preliminary trial will take place on Mar. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, on Feb. 9, a court ordered another local daily, Haykakan Jamanak (&#8220;Armenian Times&#8221;), to pay 2 million 44 thousand AMD (about $5,600 US) each to three MPs, Ruben Hayrapetyan, Samvel Aleksanyan and Levon Sargsyan, for &#8220;harm caused to honor, dignity and business reputation.&#8221;<\/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 (HHK) MP Tigran Arzakantsyan has filed a lawsuit against local daily Yerkir (&#8220;Country&#8221;)&#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],"tags":[21387,17866,21389,21386,15030,21388,22568,22567,22569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70264"}],"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=70264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}