Member of "Founding Parliament" Gevorg Safaryan goes on hunger strike

On April 16, Gevorg Safaryan, an activist of the "Founding Parliament", accused of plotting riots in Armenia, went on hunger strike in prison to protest against "political repression". This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the office of the "Founding Parliament."

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 7, members of the "Founding Parliament" (formerly "Pre-Parliament"), including Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the movement "100 Years without Regime", activist Gevorg Safaryan, Varuzhan Avetisyan, the Deputy Chairman of the movement, activist Pavel Manukyan, and Garegin Chukaszyan, the Chairman of the movement, were arrested on suspicion of plotting riots in Armenia.

According to Tigran Egoryan, an advocate of Gevorg Safaryan, his client is being kept at a cell, where only eight beds are at disposal of 27 people.

"We have not yet appealed against that fact; however, we intend to, since such inhuman conditions are unacceptable," Tigran Egoryan has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

After that statement, Gevorg Safaryan was transferred to a separate cell. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a member of the "Founding Parliament". The source has also added that the defendant was also allowed to be visited by human rights defenders, who assured him that they would monitor the progress of the investigation into the criminal case.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.