{"id":61575,"date":"2024-05-14T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=61575"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:46:45","slug":"when-arresting-hampig-sassounian-police-tie-his-hands-and-beat-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/61575\/","title":{"rendered":"When arresting Hampig Sassounian police tie his hands and beat him"},"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>The berets and the police officers behave like cowards; they use force even against a person with his hands tied. Hampig Sassounian, a member of the Justice Fighters organization, said this to <strong>ABC medi<\/strong>a. Sassounian was arrested today but was released midway.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was arrested outside the Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall. I was standing on the sidewalk; there were other people next to me. The berets approached them and started to drag them. Then I said: &lsquo;Why are you taking him? He is standing on the sidewalk.&rsquo; After that, two other police officers came and took me too. I got even more angry when they caught me and hit me from the right side. They behaved like cowards. How can one hit a person with his hands tied?&rdquo; Hampig Sassounian noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the present authorities have dragged the country into four wars in the past six years, and seeing all that, the people must wake up. &ldquo;I am calling on my people, students and honorable Armenians to join this struggle. If the current authorities continue to rule, there will be no Armenia. The future of this three-thousand-year-old country hangs by a thread; if Nikol the traitor does not leave, there will be no Armenia,&rdquo; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The berets and the police officers behave like cowards; they use force even against a person with his hands tied. Hampig Sassounian, a member of the Justice Fighters organization, said this to ABC media. Sassounian was arrested today but was released midway. &ldquo;I was arrested outside the Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall. I was standing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":61515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61575","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}