{"id":92051,"date":"2011-05-03T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=92051"},"modified":"2011-05-03T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T10:55:47","slug":"hak-activists-name-final-deadline-of-may-31-or-you-can-expect-sit-in-at-liberty-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/03\/hak-activists-name-final-deadline-of-may-31-or-you-can-expect-sit-in-at-liberty-square.html","title":{"rendered":"HAK Activists Name Final Deadline of May 31 or You Can Expect Sit-In at Liberty Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public event page created on Facebook shows 413 people &#8220;attending&#8221; an event called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/fbx\/?set=a.66358799271.70845.760389271#!\/event.php?eid=205294882837390\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I am joining Levon Zurabyan&#8217;s sit-in<\/span><\/strong><\/a>&#8221; (in Armenian). Organizers of the event have said in addition to the Facebook attendees, 132 people thus far have called to say they too will join the event.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the event was created by four activists with the opposition bloc the Armenian National Congress (HAK), who state that &#8220;if until May 31 at 6 pm, all political prisoners in Armenia&#8217;s prisoners are not released and do not greet HAK rally participants on the Liberty Square platform, beginning from that time, we will announce a sit-in of indefinite period at the same Liberty Square.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few days after creating the event, HAK activist Areg Gevorgyan (pictured), in an interview with local daily Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun (&#8220;Fourth Self-Authority&#8221;), urged people to call him on his cell if they want to join the May 31 sit-in.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, Gevorgyan said people were quite actively responding to the call and joining the cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of people wanting to participate in the sit-in is growing every minute, both on Facebook and through phone calls,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, after the HAK rally and march on Apr. 28, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/29\/next-time-ill-come-sit-with-you-zurabyan-tried-to-appease-sit-in-demonstrators\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>a group of demonstrators didn&#8217;t want to leave<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and sat on the steps of the opera building, calling for a sit-in. HAK coordinator Levon Zurabyan appealed to the activists and said if all remaining political prisoners are not released by May 31, he will join the sit-in they are calling for.<\/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>&#8220;The number of people wanting to participate in the sit-in is growing every minute, both on Facebook and through phone&#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":92010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18433,10912,15118,13272,12350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92051"}],"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=92051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}