Sasun Mikaelyan is still in hospital
Armenian ex parliamentarian Sasun Mikaelyan, one of the few opposition leaders remaining in jail after the post-election clashes of March 1, 2008, is still in the Hospital for Convicts.
"Sasun Mikaelyan is kept under strict supervision," Arsen Babayan, a spokesman for the Department of Penitentiaries at the Ministry of Justice, told A1+.
On December 16 Sasun Mikaelyan was operated on in the Armenia Medical Center.
The prominent oppositionist, who was stripped of his parliament mandate in October, was diagnosed with serious respiratory problems that had adversely affected his heart.
Like several other prominent allies of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian, Mikaelyan was convicted in June of organizing "mass disturbances" in the wake of the February 2008 presidential election. He was also found guilty of illegal arms possession. The resulting eight-year sentence disqualified him from a general amnesty that led to the release of some 30 opposition members and supporters.
On September 12 the former parliamentarian was taken to the "Hospital for Convicts" with problems of respiratory tract and high blood pressure. Besides, he complained of more than 60 pieces of shrapnel in his body received during the Karabakh war.
