Even injections cannot help Soghomon Kocharyan
The health condition of an Armenian lifer, who was granted medical parole last week, is not improving. Soghomon Kocharyan, 49, was sentenced to death in 1995 after being convicted for murder of an ethnic Azeri citizen of Iran. He has served 20 years in prison so far. He suffered all night and had a lot of pain, now even the injections did not help him," Soghomon’s mother Zina Kocharyan told A1+. However, the woman is encouraged by the fact that her son has begun to eat less. When Soghomon does not feel pain he talks to his relatives and wants to go home but they cannot move him. The Court of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork Marash districts on Thursday decided last Tuesday to set free Soghomon Kocharyan, who is suffering from several serious ailments. For the past two months the man has been in hospital with an acute heart problem. Doctors assess the health condition of the Karabakh war veteran as heavy. During the 20 years that he spent in prison, Kocharian lost his wife who also succumbed to a heavy disease. His health condition sharply deteriorated after his 19-year-old daughter committed suicide last year. The man is now under his 70-year-old mother’s care. The court decision was made in Kocharyan’s absentia.
