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JAILED JAVAKHK-ARMENIAN ACTIVIST DECLARES HUNGER STRIKE
news.am
Oct 6 2011
Armenia
Javakhk-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan, whom Georgian authorities
had sentenced to 10 years in confinement and who is serving his
sentence at a top-security prison in Georgia, on Wednesday declared
a termless hunger strike, Chakhalyan himself informed Yerkir Union
over the telephone.
Chakhalyan resorted to hunger strike to protest "against his inhuman
and degrading prison conditions." He demands an end to his "unlawful
suppression" and improvement of his prison conditions.
Vahagn Chakhalyan also informed that, despite his requests, the
prison's administration refuses to register his hunger strike.
On September 14, Chakhalyan's attorney Stepan Voskanyan had released
a statement, where it was noted that, , Georgian authorities have
increased the prison suppression against the Javakhk-Armenian
activist and also significantly tightened his prison conditions,
in recent periods.
Javakhk (Georgian name: Javakheti) is an Armenian-populated part of
Georgia's southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti province.
From: Baghdasarian
news.am
Oct 6 2011
Armenia
Javakhk-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan, whom Georgian authorities
had sentenced to 10 years in confinement and who is serving his
sentence at a top-security prison in Georgia, on Wednesday declared
a termless hunger strike, Chakhalyan himself informed Yerkir Union
over the telephone.
Chakhalyan resorted to hunger strike to protest "against his inhuman
and degrading prison conditions." He demands an end to his "unlawful
suppression" and improvement of his prison conditions.
Vahagn Chakhalyan also informed that, despite his requests, the
prison's administration refuses to register his hunger strike.
On September 14, Chakhalyan's attorney Stepan Voskanyan had released
a statement, where it was noted that, , Georgian authorities have
increased the prison suppression against the Javakhk-Armenian
activist and also significantly tightened his prison conditions,
in recent periods.
Javakhk (Georgian name: Javakheti) is an Armenian-populated part of
Georgia's southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti province.
From: Baghdasarian