{"id":167101,"date":"2025-07-10T15:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=167101"},"modified":"2025-07-10T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:07:10","slug":"congressman-sherman-expresses-concern-over-dissident-arrests-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/167101\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Sherman expresses concern over dissident arrests in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman is deeply concerned about the arrests of &ldquo;Armenian dissidents,&rdquo; including businessman Samvel Karapetyan and clergy, and has expressed his concerns to the Armenian ambassador in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As Vice Chair of the Armenia Caucus, I am deeply concerned about recent arrests of Armenian dissidents, including Mr. Samvel Karapetyan and clergy of the Armenian Church. Our relationship with Armenia is built on our shared dedication to democracy. I expressed these concerns earlier today to Armenia&rsquo;s Ambassador Lilit Makunts,&rdquo; Sherman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BradSherman\/status\/1943104031607373991\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman is deeply concerned about the arrests of &ldquo;Armenian dissidents,&rdquo; including businessman Samvel Karapetyan and clergy, and has expressed his concerns to the Armenian ambassador in Washington. &ldquo;As Vice Chair of the Armenia Caucus, I am deeply concerned about recent arrests of Armenian dissidents, including Mr. Samvel Karapetyan and clergy of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":167098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-society","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}