{"id":70319,"date":"2011-02-25T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T09:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=70319"},"modified":"2011-02-25T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T10:52:30","slug":"yerkir-considers-mps-lawsuit-to-be-amusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/25\/yerkir-considers-mps-lawsuit-to-be-amusing.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerkir Considers MP&#8217;s Lawsuit to be Amusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor of local daily Yerkir Harutyun Harutyunyan considers Republican Party MP, businessman and owner of Great Valley (a producer of alcoholic beverages) Tigran Arzakantsyan&#8217;s lawsuit against the newspaper to be amusing.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by local daily Aravot (&#8220;Morning&#8221;) today, Arzakantsyan (pictured) 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 (part of a series) titled &#8220;131 faces and masks&#8221; in Yerkir&#8217;s Jan. 13 issue. Note in the series, Yerkir usually features MPs, showcasing their activities and facts related to their past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m guessing what ruling the court will make because the newly adopted law is clearly connected to silencing media resources,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the chief editor, they don&#8217;t see any instance of defamation in the article in question. &#8220;We just accessed Russian and Armenian media.&#8221;<\/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>Editor of local daily Yerkir Harutyun Harutyunyan considers Republican Party MP, businessman and owner of Great Valley Tigran Arzakantsyan&#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":70299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21387,19283,21386,22568,22567,22569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319"}],"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=70319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}