Zaruhi Postanjyan appeals to ministers
Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan has addressed a letter to the Minister of Health, Harutyun Kushkyan, Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan, Head of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation to Armenia Lorenzo Caraffi, and Head of the Armenian Red Cross Society Anna Yeghiazaryan.
Postanjyan calls their attention to her brother Tigran Postanjyan who started a hunger strike in Nubarashen penitentiary on May 11, 2011. The Heritage MP urges the relevant bodies to provide proper medical aid to the detainee.
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.
