{"id":75928,"date":"2011-03-15T17:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=75928"},"modified":"2011-03-15T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:03:10","slug":"heritage-party-leader-announces-hes-on-a-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/15\/heritage-party-leader-announces-hes-on-a-hunger-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Party Leader Announces He&#8217;s on a Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Party founder and chair Raffi Hovannisian announced today that he&#8217;s on a hunger strike. The reason? He said it&#8217;s because the country is in an emergency situation. Hovannisian made the announcement at the end of his speech during a special meeting of the Heritage Party today.<\/p>\n<p>Making this surprise statement, Hovannisian noted that he wants to separate from his family &#8220;during this trial period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will meet again, we will meet soon, until victory,&#8221; he said and left without providing additional explanations.<\/p>\n<p>Epress.am spoke with MPs Armen Martirosyan and Stepan Safaryan present at the meeting, who said the announcement was news to them too.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Epress.am whether the other party members are prepared to join their leader, Safaryan said they still have to discuss this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1DOGFat5Ao?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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>Heritage Party founder and chair Raffi Hovannisian announced today that he&#8217;s on a hunger strike. The reason? <!-- 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":75920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12075,12351,12077,16797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75928"}],"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=75928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}