Tigran Postanjyan starts hunger strike in prison
Head of Heritage parliamentary faction Stepan Safaryan has sent a letter to Armenian Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan, Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan and Chief of Police Alik Sargsyan, calling their attention to the fact that an inmate of Nubarashen penitentiary, Tigran Postanjyan, started a hunger strike to protest inhuman and humiliating attitude of the prison administration.
In February 2011, a case was filed against Tigran Postanjyan, a leading specialist in Yerevan's Arabkir district and the brother of Heritage MP Zaruhi Postanjyan, for receiving AMD 100,000 (about $274 US) remuneration for turning a blind eye to illegal construction done in his district. A few days later, Postanjyan was called to the National Security Service for questioning where he was taken under arrest.
Zaruhi Postanjian denounced the case as baseless and politically motivated and said it was coordinated attack against her, Heritage and the whole defiant public.
