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25 ARMENIAN INMATES TO DECLARE HUNGER STRIKE - NEWSPAPER
NEWS.am
January 17, 2012 | 09:18
YEREVAN. - Around twenty-five inmates, who are serving life sentences
in Armenia's Nubarashen Prison, will declare a hunger strike on
Tuesday, Hraparak daily writes.
"They have prepared three letters-[addressed] to Armenia's President,
the Council of Europe, and the Red Cross offices-in which they inform
about their intention, and demand that the President's representative
visit them and listen to their demand. And they demand a review
of their cases, pursuant to the law, and to make their sentences
correspond with the changes in Armenia's Criminal Code, that is, they
be sentenced to 15-20 years in prison. In recent months they sent
letters to corresponding agencies, on numerous occasions, but they
were not responded to. And this became the reason for this extreme
measure. They note that if their demand is not met this time as well,
[twenty-five] more will join the first twenty-five hunger strikers in
several days, and this will continue until their voices are heard,"
Hraparak writes.
NEWS.am
January 17, 2012 | 09:18
YEREVAN. - Around twenty-five inmates, who are serving life sentences
in Armenia's Nubarashen Prison, will declare a hunger strike on
Tuesday, Hraparak daily writes.
"They have prepared three letters-[addressed] to Armenia's President,
the Council of Europe, and the Red Cross offices-in which they inform
about their intention, and demand that the President's representative
visit them and listen to their demand. And they demand a review
of their cases, pursuant to the law, and to make their sentences
correspond with the changes in Armenia's Criminal Code, that is, they
be sentenced to 15-20 years in prison. In recent months they sent
letters to corresponding agencies, on numerous occasions, but they
were not responded to. And this became the reason for this extreme
measure. They note that if their demand is not met this time as well,
[twenty-five] more will join the first twenty-five hunger strikers in
several days, and this will continue until their voices are heard,"
Hraparak writes.