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JAVAKHK-ARMENIAN ACTIVIST ENDS HUNGER STRIKE
news.am, Armenia
Oct 12 2011
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, ended his hunger strike
declared on October 5.
Program coordinator of the Union of Armenian organizations on
repatriation Robert Tonoyan said the hunger strike yielded certain
results. In particular, conditions in jail were improved, he was also
allowed to hold meetings.
"Even Georgian media wrote about Chakhalyan's hunger strike," Tonoyan
said adding that he is not the only person persecuted in Georgia for
political reasons.
Chakhalyan's attorney Stepan Voskanyan said he is discriminated in
the Georgian prison, not allowed to have water and buy something, for
instance, sugar. According to him, Chakhalyan met with his relatives
only once in three years, while phone calls are constantly interrupted.
Javakhk (Georgian name: Javakheti) is an Armenian-populated part of
Georgia's southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti province.
news.am, Armenia
Oct 12 2011
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, ended his hunger strike
declared on October 5.
Program coordinator of the Union of Armenian organizations on
repatriation Robert Tonoyan said the hunger strike yielded certain
results. In particular, conditions in jail were improved, he was also
allowed to hold meetings.
"Even Georgian media wrote about Chakhalyan's hunger strike," Tonoyan
said adding that he is not the only person persecuted in Georgia for
political reasons.
Chakhalyan's attorney Stepan Voskanyan said he is discriminated in
the Georgian prison, not allowed to have water and buy something, for
instance, sugar. According to him, Chakhalyan met with his relatives
only once in three years, while phone calls are constantly interrupted.
Javakhk (Georgian name: Javakheti) is an Armenian-populated part of
Georgia's southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti province.