04:27, 30 April 2015

In Armenia, member of "Founding Parliament" stops his hunger strike

Gevorg Safaryan. Photo: http://ru.a1plus.am/1287956.html

Gevorg Safaryan, a member of the "Founding Parliament" movement, accused in plotting riots in Armenia, has stopped his hunger strike.

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. On April 16, Gevorg Safaryan declared a hunger strike in the penitentiary institution "Nubarashen" to protest against "political repressions". Soon after that, his health state has deteriorated.

Gevorg Safaryan has been transferred to another cell, where he has got no other inmates yet, the "Caucasian Knot" has been told at the office of the "Founding Parliament". "We do not worry about his health state any more, since he has begun to eat," a member of the opposition movement has noted.

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

Author: Tigran Petrosyan

Source: CK correspondent