{"id":75959,"date":"2011-03-15T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=75959"},"modified":"2011-03-15T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:15:45","slug":"court-to-issue-verdict-on-samson-khachatryan-case-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/15\/court-to-issue-verdict-on-samson-khachatryan-case-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Court to Issue Verdict on Samson Khachatryan Case Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of Armenian National Congress supporter, well-known boxer and double European champion Samson Khachatryan is currently underway in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts. The court presided over by\u00a0 Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan will issue a verdict on the case today.<\/p>\n<p>Khachatryan&#8217;s attorney Ara Zakaryan left the courtroom for 30 minutes in order to become better familiar with court material.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, Samson Khachatryan was arrested on Mar. 13. He is being charged under RA Criminal Code Article 316 Section 1 (violence against a representative of the authorities), connected to an incident that took place during the March 1 HAK rally.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the police statement, at the intersection of Mashtots and Koryun streets in Yerevan at around 6 pm on Mar. 1, Khachatryan &#8220;did not obey the lawful demands by police officers, displayed resistance and hit one of the officers, causing him bodily harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The opposition bloc has called the arrest a &#8220;police provocation&#8221; and persecution of an activist for his political views.<\/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>The trial of Armenian National Congress supporter, well-known boxer and double European champion Samson Khachatryan is&#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":75197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10340,12179,23352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75959"}],"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=75959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}