{"id":95784,"date":"2011-05-16T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=95784"},"modified":"2011-05-16T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:12:35","slug":"hak-activist-cleared-of-charges-gives-copy-of-march-1-film-to-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/16\/hak-activist-cleared-of-charges-gives-copy-of-march-1-film-to-judge.html","title":{"rendered":"HAK Activist Cleared of Charges, Gives Copy of March 1 Film to Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The charges against Armenian National Congress youth activist Areg Gevorgyan were cleared by the Court of Appeals earlier today due to a lack of corpus delicti. Recall, Gevorgyan was arrested on Apr. 20, 2010, and held in pretrial detention for two months, on charges of avoiding compulsory military service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After being arrested, it accidentally became known that I am wanted for draft evasion, but this is ridiculous to say the least since I am actively engaged in public activities and I don&#8217;t think it would&#8217;ve been hard to find me. Anyhow, the trial began after the arrest. As a result of an examination that lasted about a year, they sentenced me to a suspended sentence of a year and six months, after which prosecutor Sahakyan appealed the first court&#8217;s ruling, asking for my imprisonment; that is, I had served two months in prison and I would serve another year and 4 months.The case was moved to the appeals court, the result of which became clear today \u2014 that I can&#8217;t serve in the army for health reasons,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gevorgyan, this entire court process had one purpose: to hinder his civic and political activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They wanted to keep me in [a state of] constant tension, but, naturally, they didn&#8217;t succeed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gevorgyan, upon leaving the courtroom, handed over a copy of Tigran Paskevichyan&#8217;s film on March 1 (&#8220;Armenia&#8217;s Lost Spring&#8221;) to Judge Hambartsumyan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, this is a film describing [the events of] Mar. 1, 2008, and he should definitely watch it,&#8221; concluded Gevorgyan.<\/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 charges against Armenian National Congress youth activist Areg Gevorgyan were cleared by the Court of Appeals earlier &#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":95714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18433,65942,26524,25549,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95784"}],"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=95784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}