Gevorg Safaryan stops his hunger strike
The Armenian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) denies the threat of physical violence against activist Gevorg Safaryan kept at the Nubarashen Prison.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on January 14, Gevorg Safaryan, an activist of the Front of National Salvation "New Armenia", declared a hunger strike with the demand to place him to a separate cell. The protest action was supported by his cellmate Hayk Kyuregyan, sentenced in the case of shooting near the courthouse. On January 16, after being placed to a separate cell, Gevorg Safaryan stopped his hunger strike; however, on January 20, he resumed it to protest against the transfer to another cell.
On December 31, 2015, Gevorg Safaryan was detained as a result of the conflict between activists and the police in Freedom Square in Yerevan. On January 3, he was arrested for two months. The Special Investigating Service has instituted a criminal case on the fact of the conflict between the activists and the policemen, who are suspected of abuse of power.
According to Gor Glechyan, the chief of the press service of the Criminal Executive Department of the Armenian Ministry of Justice, Gevorg Safaryan is being kept at a common cell.
The official has denied the statement made by the activist's advocate about a threat of physical violence against Gevorg Safaryan in a common cell and noted that a doctor did not detect any signs of violence on the activist's body.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.