{"id":91504,"date":"2011-05-02T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=91504"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T05:48:09","slug":"another-armenian-oppositionist-to-be-released-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/02\/another-armenian-oppositionist-to-be-released-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Armenian Oppositionist to be Released Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2, Aram Bareghamyan, who was arrested in connection with the events of March 1, 2008, will be released from prison.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the Sevan penitentiary administration recommended Bareghamyan&#8217;s early release. A commission dealing with parole applications reviewed, then approved the recommendation. The news of his impending release is to be announced during a court session today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A court session is to take place at 2 pm tomorrow, after which we will bring Aram home,&#8221; Bareghamyan&#8217;s brother Husik Bareghamyan told Epress.am yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Bareghamyan headed a regional chapter of a major political party aligned with the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) before being arrested in the wake of the disputed presidential ballot. He was sentenced to six years in prison for allegedly assaulting a police officer during the March 2008 unrest in Yerevan, reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/3544258.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>RFE\/RL&#8217;s Armenian service<\/strong><\/span><\/a> earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The prison sentenced was based on the police officer\u2019s incriminating testimony. Both Bareghamyan and the HAK leadership consider it politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, HAK leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/28\/ter-petrossian-asks-supporters-to-wait-one-more-month-confident-haks-third-demand-will-be-met\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Levon Ter-Petrossian announced during the opposition&#8217;s April 28 rally<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that he expects the only unfulfilled demand of the three demands he put forth to the Sargsyan administration \u2014 to free all remaining political prisoners \u2014 to be met by May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Note, after Bareghayan&#8217;s release, there will be six other HAK loyalists in prison in connection with March 1 events.<\/p>\n<p>Recall as well that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/29\/parliamentary-chair-asks-armenian-president-to-pardon-sasun-mikaelyan\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>National Assembly Chair Hovik Abrahamyan appealed to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, asking him to consider imprisoned oppositionist Sasun Mikaelyan&#8217;s health and to &#8220;consider the possibility of pardoning him.&#8221;<\/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>On May 2, Aram Bareghamyan, who was arrested in connection with the events of March 1, 2008, will be released from prison.<!-- 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":91448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24140,13272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91504"}],"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=91504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}