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SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC HNCHAK PARTY JOINS HUNGER STRIKE

Politics

Members of the Social-Democratic Hnchak Party (SDHP) Hambardzum Yeghiazarian and Garegin Sedrakian have joined the four hunger strikers of the Armenian Pan National Movement since 10:30 a.m.

As Hambardzum Yeghiazarian informed “A1+” the strikers demand implementation of the terms of PACE Resolution 1609, which the “so-called authorities” are reluctant to carry out.

The SDHP hunger strikers are going to send notifications to the corresponding departments, such as Yerevan Municipality, Office of the Human Rights Defender, RA Prosecutor’s Office, and Red Cross Center to inform about the beginning of hunger strike.

According to the Chairwoman of the SDHP Lyudmila Sargssian some of the political prisoners are released as a result of the change in pre-trial measures. “The others are still in prison. Our demand is to immediately release the political prisoners instead of changing the pre-trial measures. Our hunger strike is not a political one. It is a struggle for our friends and their liberty”, the chairwoman told “A1+”.

Concerning the time limits of the hunger strike Lyudmila Sargssian said: “We have no right to put our friends’ lives on stake. It will continue until they can stand it. Though there are so many volunteers willing to join the strike that actually it is permanent.”