{"id":220645,"date":"2025-12-24T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=220645"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:05:34","slug":"half-of-armenias-archbishops-currently-in-prison-the-telegraph-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/220645\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Armenia\u2019s archbishops currently in prison, The Telegraph writes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the British media outlet The Telegraph<\/a>, well-known journalists Tim Stanley and Father Benedict Kiel discussed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s authoritarian measures and the crackdown on the Church.<\/p>\n

International lawyer and founder of Amsterdam & Partners LLP, Robert Amsterdam, shared a clip from the discussion on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

According to the commentators, Pashinyan currently gives the impression of a collaborator working with Azerbaijanis—ceding territory and arresting archbishops who raise protests. It is reported that half of Armenia’s archbishops are now in prison because they are opposing the prime minister.<\/p>\n

“They describe him essentially as a tyrant. Elections are expected next year, but will they actually take place?” the commentators said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the British media outlet The Telegraph, well-known journalists Tim Stanley and Father Benedict Kiel discussed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s authoritarian measures and the crackdown on the Church. International lawyer and founder of Amsterdam & Partners LLP, Robert Amsterdam, shared a clip from the discussion on his Facebook page. According to the commentators, Pashinyan currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":220588,"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-220645","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\/220645","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=220645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220646,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220645\/revisions\/220646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}