"SASUN MIKAELIAN DOESN’T RECEIVE PROPER TREATMENT"
/09/23/hovik-arsenian
September 23, 2009
Advocate Hovik Arsenian is indignant at the fact that Armenia’s former
MP Sasun Mikaelian undergoes treatment in the "Hospital for Convicts"
Penitentiary Institution.
I have submitted all documents certifying to Mikaelian’s illness
during the preinvestigation and legal proceedings and demanded that
my client be set free. During the trial doctors have been sent for
to examine Sasun Mikaelian. Undoubtedly, Sasun must be under constant
supervision of doctors," says the advocate.
Remind that on September 12 Armenian opposition parliamentarian
Sasun Mikaelian was taken to the "Hospital for Convicts" with rapid
heartbeats and high blood pressure. Besides, Sasun felt pain in his
body from the shell-splinters received during the war.
"Can a person having so many complaints and being deprived of sunlight
for a year and a half get proper treatment in the "Hospital for
Convicts"? Surely, he cannot," says Hovik Arsenian.
"Keeping a national hero like Sasun Mikaelian in custody is high
treason," adds the indignant advocate.
"All non-government organizations should join in protest against
Sasun Mikaelian’s detention. It is a matter of honour for all of
us. The Armenian legislation enables to quash the lawsuit against
Sasun Mikaelian."