{"id":74237,"date":"2011-03-10T12:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T08:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=74237"},"modified":"2011-03-10T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T08:53:03","slug":"odihr-director-doesnt-know-why-liberty-square-rallies-are-prohibited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/10\/odihr-director-doesnt-know-why-liberty-square-rallies-are-prohibited.html","title":{"rendered":"ODIHR Director Doesn&#8217;t Know Why Liberty Square Rallies are Prohibited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom of Assembly is one of the fundamental human freedoms. Armenia has committed itself to protecting this freedom, both in international legally-binding documents and in OSCE documents, said Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions &amp; Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenar\u010di\u010d, responding to Epress.am&#8217;s request for comments on why Armenia&#8217;s authorities continue to prohibit the opposition from holding rallies in Liberty Square.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom of peaceful assembly means freedom of peaceful assembly. I don&#8217;t know the reasons why the Armenian authorities prohibit [the Armenian National Congress from holding rallies in Liberty Square]. But I know what the rules are, the international rules. International rules say very clearly peaceful rallies have to be allowed; I repeat, have to be allowed&#8230; Restrictions are possible, but they can only be enforced if they&#8217;re absolutely necessary; they can only be imposed in accordance with the law. Now it is up to the Armenian authorities to explain whether they&#8217;re imposing restrictions and what is their basis [for doing so]. I don&#8217;t know the reasons,&#8221; he said.<\/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>Freedom of Assembly is one of the fundamental human freedoms. Armenia has committed itself to protecting this freedom, both in&#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":74174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23185,20251,23173,23172,23186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74237"}],"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=74237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}