{"id":97427,"date":"2011-05-20T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=97427"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:49:39","slug":"witnesses-in-the-tigran-postanjyan-case-testified-today-imprisoned-official-continues-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/20\/witnesses-in-the-tigran-postanjyan-case-testified-today-imprisoned-official-continues-hunger-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses in the Tigran Postanjyan Case Testified Today. Imprisoned Official Continues Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial against Tigran Postanjyan, brother of opposition MP Zaruhi Postanjyan, continued at the Court of General Jurisdiction of First Instance of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun Administrative Districts in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, according to Armenia\u2019s Prosecutor General\u2019s office, Tigran Postanjyan, who works for the local government of Yerevan\u2019s Arabkir district, was paid 100,000 drams (about $275 US) last September to turn a blind eye to illegal construction carried out by an unnamed local resident.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case was instituted under Article 311 Section 1 (taking bribes by a state official) of the RA Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p>During today&#8217;s court session, Postanjyan&#8217;s attorney Hayk Alumyan made a motion to change his client&#8217;s precautionary measure; however, the judge overruled the motion.<\/p>\n<p>Four witnesses gave testimonies today. The next court date is scheduled for May 24 at 1 pm. Note, today is the eighth day that Tigran Postanjyan has been on a hunger strike.<\/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 against Tigran Postanjyan, brother of opposition MP Zaruhi Postanjyan, continued at the Court of General Jurisdiction of&#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":72288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,22266,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97427"}],"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=97427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}