{"id":73678,"date":"2011-03-08T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=73678"},"modified":"2011-03-08T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T11:08:36","slug":"hak-activist-awaits-for-apology-from-armenias-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/08\/hak-activist-awaits-for-apology-from-armenias-police-chief.html","title":{"rendered":"HAK Activist Awaits for Apology from Armenia&#8217;s Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Tigran Arakelyan submitted a complaint to the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan on Mar. 4 to mandate RA Police Chief Alik Sargsyan to publicly apologize.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint refers to an incident on Jul. 5, 2009, when police called Arakelyan to come in as a witness related to an incident on Jul. 1, 2009, in Yerevan. When Arakelyan arrived to the station, he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, according to HAK youth activists, on Jul. 1, 2009, they were assaulted on Abovyan street by unknown individuals for distributing leaflets on a Jul. 2 rally, for which the opposition group had a permit.<\/p>\n<p>Arakelyan, along with two of his friends, were taken to hospital with injuries. In Oct. of the same year, Arakelyan was released from police custody, and the nine-month-long criminal prosecution was suspended due to lack of corpus delicti.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, Arakelyan said that during a press conference on Aug. 21, 2009, the police chief, responding to journalists&#8217; questions, said &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t the first time that [Tigran Arakelyan] used force on police and he had to be arrested.&#8221; Other questions related to Arakelyan, the police chief advised to direct to the court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been justified in court, I&#8217;m not considered a criminal, and now I&#8217;ve given my issues to the court. And the &#8216;respectable police chief&#8217; rushed by making his statement and he&#8217;s not justified. And now he has to apologize to me before those same media. That too is a requirement of the law,&#8221; he said, adding that he is also demanding compensation from the government for moral and material damages.<\/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>Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Tigran Arakelyan submitted a complaint to the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and&#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":73639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13239,16527,12864,15337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73678"}],"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=73678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}