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3 jailed Armenian activists declare hunger strike
January 11, 2014 | 11:48
YEREVAN. - Avetis Avetisyan, Alek Poghosyan, and Misak Arakelyan - who
are among those arrested during the events that occurred on November
5, 2013 in Armenia's capital city Yerevan - declared a hunger strike
since Wednesday.
But they have not yet been moved to a separate cell, Avetisyan's wife
told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
They demand that the ban on their relatives' visits be lifted and the
psychological pressures and the persecutions against their families be
ended.
`The Justice Ministry informed that it is unaware of this hunger
strike, whereas a person from the Ombudsman's Office already visited
them on this matter,' the woman added.
The United National Initiative leader and activist Shant Harutyunyan
who heads a nationalist party, and who had announced about starting a
revolution, on November 5, 2013 - and with close to several dozen
supporters wearing Guy Fawkes `Anonymous masks' - had started a march
toward the Presidential Palace, but the police had stopped the march.
As a result, there was a scuffle, and the police detained 38
activists, including Harutyunyan and his son. Subsequently, 20 of
them, including Harutyunyan, were arrested, charges were laid against
six of them and, consequently, they were incarcerated. As a result of
the melee, sixteen people, including police officers and the Armenian
News-NEWS.am reporter, were injured.
Shant Harutyunyan was charged with violence against a
representative - i.e., the police - of the authorities, and on Friday he
ended his sixteen-day hunger strike.
http://news.am/eng/news/188763.html
January 11, 2014 | 11:48
YEREVAN. - Avetis Avetisyan, Alek Poghosyan, and Misak Arakelyan - who
are among those arrested during the events that occurred on November
5, 2013 in Armenia's capital city Yerevan - declared a hunger strike
since Wednesday.
But they have not yet been moved to a separate cell, Avetisyan's wife
told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
They demand that the ban on their relatives' visits be lifted and the
psychological pressures and the persecutions against their families be
ended.
`The Justice Ministry informed that it is unaware of this hunger
strike, whereas a person from the Ombudsman's Office already visited
them on this matter,' the woman added.
The United National Initiative leader and activist Shant Harutyunyan
who heads a nationalist party, and who had announced about starting a
revolution, on November 5, 2013 - and with close to several dozen
supporters wearing Guy Fawkes `Anonymous masks' - had started a march
toward the Presidential Palace, but the police had stopped the march.
As a result, there was a scuffle, and the police detained 38
activists, including Harutyunyan and his son. Subsequently, 20 of
them, including Harutyunyan, were arrested, charges were laid against
six of them and, consequently, they were incarcerated. As a result of
the melee, sixteen people, including police officers and the Armenian
News-NEWS.am reporter, were injured.
Shant Harutyunyan was charged with violence against a
representative - i.e., the police - of the authorities, and on Friday he
ended his sixteen-day hunger strike.
http://news.am/eng/news/188763.html