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    VAHAGN CHAKHALYAN ENDS HUNGER STRIKE IN GEORGIAN JAIL
    Kristine Aghalaryan

    hetq
    12:05, October 12, 2011

    United Javakhk movement leader Vahagn Chakhalyan yesterday ended
    his hunger strike that he started on October 5 to protest inhumane
    treatment in the Georgian jail where he is now serving out his
    sentence.

    Robert Tatoyan, Program Coordinator for the Yerkir Union, reports that
    some of Chakhalyan~Rs demands have been met by prison authorities
    and that Primate Vazgen Mirzakhanyan of the Georgian Diocese of the
    Armenian Apostolic Church was allowed to visit Chakhalyan in jail.

    The clergyman was able to get prison authorities to all books
    returned to the prisoner and restore buying privileges at the jail~Rs
    commissary.

    Tatoyan says that Chakhalyan is still prohibited from seeing family
    members.

    The last time Chakhalyan~Rs parents were allowed a visit was back in
    2008 and the meeting only lasted 15 minutes.

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