{"id":99058,"date":"2011-05-26T10:39:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T05:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=99058"},"modified":"2011-05-26T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T06:58:38","slug":"armenia-justice-minister-amensty-will-apply-to-nikol-pashinyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/26\/armenia-justice-minister-amensty-will-apply-to-nikol-pashinyan.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Justice Minister: Amnesty will Apply to Nikol Pashinyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The general amnesty will apply to imprisoned journalist, chief editor of local daily Haykakan Jamanak (&#8220;Armenian Times&#8221;) Nikol Pashinyan and former National Assembly deputy, imprisoned opposition member Sasun Mikaelyan. This news was conveyed by Armenian justice minister Hrayr Tovmasyan late yesterday evening on the program &#8220;Herankar&#8221; (perspective, prospect) on Shant TV, commenting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/25\/national-assembly-approves-general-amnesty-decision\/\"><strong>draft amnesty resolution<\/strong><\/a> presented at the National Assembly yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the amnesty move and the renewed probe into the events of Mar. 1\u20132, 2008, can be viewed as a single &#8220;package,&#8221; the minister said one is the logical extension of the other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we attempt to follow the policy adopted by the president, we will see that there is a certain logical continuation, and the integrity of these steps can be considered the president&#8217;s Astana speech, continued in the speech dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the [ruling] Republican Party of Armenia. Our challenge is to make the domestic life of the country more effective, so that there is civilized dialogue, so that the public isn&#8217;t divided into three different groups: government [i.e. ruling coalition], opposition, and the people, where there won&#8217;t be [events such as] March 1 at all,&#8221; he said, referring to the days in 2008 when the forceful dispersal of peaceful demonstrators protesting the results of the presidential election resulted in the death of 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia is entering into the 20th anniversary of its independence, Tovmasyan continued, and those issues which were permissible during the years of its &#8220;youth&#8221; become impermissible for a mature state. And the amnesty has to fit into this logic, he said.<\/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;If we attempt to follow the policy adopted by the president, we will see that there is a certain logical continuation, and&#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":93171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26828,15238,15418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99058"}],"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=99058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}