{"id":202270,"date":"2025-10-28T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=202270"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:34:54","slug":"davit-hambardzumyan-arrested-upon-arrival-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/202270\/","title":{"rendered":"Davit Hambardzumyan arrested upon arrival (video)"},"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>Upon disembarking from the plane, security forces arrested Masis Mayor and opposition candidate for prime minister, Davit Hambardzumyan, at Zvartnots Airport.<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to more than 6 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Hambardzumyan, who is accused of &ldquo;armed attack&rdquo; (during the days of the 2018 change of power), announced yesterday, Oct. 27, that what is happening around him is political persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Hambardzumyan also denied the statements of National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan and MP Vahagn Aleksanyan that there was a recording and video recording confirming &ldquo;armed hooliganism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Simonyan and Aleksanyan are lying,&rdquo; the arrested mayor said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon disembarking from the plane, security forces arrested Masis Mayor and opposition candidate for prime minister, Davit Hambardzumyan, at Zvartnots Airport. He was sentenced to more than 6 years in prison. Hambardzumyan, who is accused of &ldquo;armed attack&rdquo; (during the days of the 2018 change of power), announced yesterday, Oct. 27, that what is happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":202084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-law","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202270","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=202270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202271,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202270\/revisions\/202271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}