IN ARMENIA, IMPRISONED JOURNALIST PLANS TO GO ON HUNGER STRIKE

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Aug 03 2009, 20:00

Arman Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper
"Zhamanak" (Time), sentenced to 3.5 years, whose health causes concern
in doctors, has declared his plan to go on hunger strike.

Armen Martirosyan, leader of the faction "Heritage" at the National
Assembly of Armenia, told journalists about poor health condition of
the convicted journalist. "Not for the first time I visited Arman,
but I’ve never left him with such a heavy feeling, because I didn’t
notice earlier such obvious health deterioration in any political
prisoner," the MP has declared.

He also said that he had sent a letter to President Serzh Sargsyan,
trying to draw his attention to the state of health of the young
journalist. Armen Martirosyan said that in the recent time the inmate
suffered from a rapid, about 40 percent, loss of vision; his right
hand is noticeably trembling. These are all the consequences of the
tumour sized 7.5 mm that was diagnosed in Babadzhanyan’s brain.