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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.
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.