{"id":27764,"date":"2011-10-12T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27764"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:40:46","slug":"armenia-court-upholds-ruling-in-ex-presidents-libel-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27764","title":{"rendered":"Armenia: Court upholds ruling in Ex-President&#8217;s libel suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An appeals court in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Armenia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Armenia\" target=\"_blank\">Armenia<\/a> has <a title=\"RFE - Armenian Court Upholds Ruling In Ex-President's Libel Suit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/armenian_court_upholds_ruling_in_expresidents_libel_suit\/24356794.html\">upheld a libel<\/a> ruling against a daily newspaper. The family of\u00a0former President Robert Kocharian, took the newspaper Zhamanak to court in December, following its publication of a series of articles, linking Kocharian&#8217;s wife, Bella, with major trade in medicines and claiming that their older son, Sedrak, owns diamond mines in India, and had defrauded an Armenian businessman. The\u00a0pro-opposition newspaper was ordered to pay\u00a03m drams ($8,000) in damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appeals court in Armenia has upheld a libel ruling against a daily newspaper. The family of\u00a0former President Robert Kocharian, took the newspaper Zhamanak to court in December, following its publication of a series of articles, linking Kocharian&#8217;s wife, Bella, with major trade in medicines and claiming that their older son, Sedrak, owns diamond mines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7371,165,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27782,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27764\/revisions\/27782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}