{"id":30945,"date":"2020-06-16T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prwb.am\/2020\/06\/16\/%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%b7%d5%ad%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%a9%d5%b5%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b6-%d5%a2%d5%a5%d5%ac%d5%a1%d5%bc%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%bd%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%9d-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf%d5%a1\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:52:22","slug":"%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%b7%d5%ad%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%a9%d5%b5%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b6-%d5%a2%d5%a5%d5%ac%d5%a1%d5%bc%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%bd%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%9d-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf%d5%a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/2020\/06\/16\/%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%b7%d5%ad%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%a9%d5%b5%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b6-%d5%a2%d5%a5%d5%ac%d5%a1%d5%bc%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%bd%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%9d-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf%d5%a1\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity to Belarus from Armenian Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We, the undersigned civil society members of Armenia strongly believe that Belarusian citizens should be free to exercise their rights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>to change their government through free and\ndemocratic elections based on OSCE standards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to protest freely and peacefully against\nviolations of their electoral and human rights and for their protection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to not be subjected to violence, arbitrary\narrest, or detention<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to have full access to information and media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We condemn the pre-election persecutions of political opponents and\ntheir supporters; violations during early voting and election day as reported\nby citizen observers, including arbitrary detention of observers and\nobstruction of their work; falsification of results; the post-election arrests,\nas well as disproportionate and unjustified use of force by the police that\ncost at least one life and left several people injured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenia\u2019s democracy and development were brutally suspended with\nseveral rigged elections. A similar violation of the people\u2019s vote in 2008 and\nviolent suppression of public discontent resulted in massive state capture,\nescalated impunity, corruption, and systemic abuse of human rights. Only\nthrough a revolution in 2018, were the Armenian people able to restore justice,\nyet even until today, two years after we are struggling with the remnants of\nthat violence and corruption\u2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, in full solidarity with the Belarusian people, we commend their\nstrong will, resilience, and readiness to stand up for their legitimate right\nto elect their own government, to restore their dignity, rights, and justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We call upon the acting President of Belarus <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>to ensure an independent recount of votes and\naudit of the electoral process <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to stop persecution of political opposition and\npeaceful protesters immediately<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to release all political prisoners <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12 August 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helsinki Citizens Assembly-Vanadzor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open Society Foundations-Armenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asparez Club of Journalists<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Journalism Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace Dialogue NGO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analytical Centre for Globalization and Regional Cooperation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Union of Informed Citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-discrimination and Equality Coalition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protection of Rights without Borders NGO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Law Development and Protection Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Centre for Community Mobilization and Support NGO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Veles Human Rights NGO<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, the undersigned civil society members of Armenia strongly believe that Belarusian citizens should be free to exercise their rights: We condemn the pre-election persecutions of political opponents and their supporters; violations during early voting and election day as reported by citizen observers, including arbitrary detention of observers and obstruction of their work; falsification of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,307,74,22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34136,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945\/revisions\/34136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prwb.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}