{"id":84069,"date":"2011-04-11T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=84069"},"modified":"2011-04-15T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T11:54:11","slug":"protest-outside-chinese-embassy-in-armenia-in-defense-of-ai-weiwei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/11\/protest-outside-chinese-embassy-in-armenia-in-defense-of-ai-weiwei.html","title":{"rendered":"Protest Outside Chinese Embassy in Armenia in Defense of Ai Weiwei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 1 pm on Apr. 15, a protest will take place outside the Chinese Embassy in Armenia in defense of world-renowned artist Ai Weiwei who was detained by Chinese police on April 3 and is being held by the state in an undisclosed location. The artist perhaps best known for co-designing the 2008 Olympic Bird&#8217;s Nest stadium, is being charged for &#8220;economic crimes.&#8221; A number of international agencies, most notably Amnesty International, insist that the persecution is political and emblematic of China&#8217;s widening crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Armenia urge &#8220;all defenders of freedom of speech and all those concerned to call the Chinese Embassy on that day and demand Ai Weiwei&#8217;s immediate release,&#8221; as well as joining them at 1 pm on Apr. 15 outside the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers also ask those attending to prepare posters and leaflets to bring to the demonstration.<\/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>At 1 pm on Apr. 15, a protest will take place outside the Chinese Embassy in Armenia in defense of world-renowned artist Ai Weiwei&#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":84050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24576,65942,10707,24577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84069"}],"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=84069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}