Volodya Avetisyan stops hunger strike
Retired army colonel Volodya Avetisyan has terminated his 11-day hunger strike, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry’s Penitentiary Department told A1+. Gor Ghlechyan says Avetisyan is in good health condition. Volodya Avetisyan started a hunger strike in the Vardashen penitentiary on October 30 as a sign of protest against the decision to an independent commission which rejected for the second time Avetisyan’s request for early release. Avetisyan was convicted of fraud and sentenced to six years in prison in July 2014. He has been in custody for two years. The retired army colonel is a father of six children, three of whom are minors. Earlier on Monday, Avetisyan’s friends gathered outside the prison to urge him to stop the hunger strike.
