SEVEN ACTIVISTS OF ANC GO ON WITHOUT TIME-LIMIT HUNGER STRIKE IN NORTHERN AVENUE

Noyan Tapan

Se p 9, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Seven activists of the Armenian
National Congress (ANC) went on a without time-limit hunger strike in
Yerevan’s Northern Avenue on September 9. Anahit Grigorian, Hermine
Manukian, Tinatin Tarielashvili, Ofelia Margarian, Svetlana Mikaelian,
Marietta Poghosian and Sona Movsisian demand an immediate release of
those who were arrested and convicted under the criminal case opened
in connection with the March 1 events.

In the evening policemen tore the "Hunger Strike" poster put up over
the heads of the strikers, as a result of which an argument broke out
between the law enforcers and the participants in a daily "political"
walk. They began hurling mutual insults at each other. The opposition
supporters started chanting "Turks" and "Struggle, Struggle Till the
End", after which the policemen went away.