{"id":271119,"date":"2026-06-07T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=271119"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:01:26","slug":"ishkhan-saghatelyan-says-at-emergency-press-briefing-that-authorities-distribute-bribes-in-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/271119\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishkhan Saghatelyan says at emergency press briefing that authorities distribute bribes in cash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The current ruling system has launched mass repressions against supporters and campaign office heads, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, a parliamentary candidate from the Armenia Alliance, said at an emergency press briefing today.<\/p>\n

Here are highlights from the briefing:<\/p>\n

People are being taken for questioning without any reason, held for several hours, and then released.<\/li>\n
The high level of turnout proves that, even with such extensive use of administrative resources, the authorities cannot ensure their re-election.<\/li>\n
“There are still three hours left until the end of voting, and we call on our compatriots in Yerevan to participate,” he said.<\/li>\n
He also accused the authorities of electoral misconduct. “We have heard from various sources that bribes in cash are being distributed,” Saghatelyan said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The current ruling system has launched mass repressions against supporters and campaign office heads, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, a parliamentary candidate from the Armenia Alliance, said at an emergency press briefing today. Here are highlights from the briefing: People are being taken for questioning without any reason, held for several hours, and then released. The high level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":271102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,2,35,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-elections-en","category-news","category-politics","category-society","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271119","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=271119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271120,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271119\/revisions\/271120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}