May 19, 2004 - 23:34 AMT
DETAINED ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST GOING ON HUNGER STRIKE
Officer of Republic opposition party Suren Sureniants, who was arrested in early April "for the calls to turn down the constitutional regime by force and outraging the authorities", is going on termless hunger strike tomorrow. As Sureniants's attorney Robert Grigorian told Liberty broadcasting station, his client undertook the extreme measure to protest against the last week's resolution of the Appeal Court, which upheld the arrest. In the statement to be presented to the chief of the Yerevan-Kentron criminal-executive institution, Sureniants is demanding the immediate release "of all the political prisoners and meet the commitments of the recent PACE resolution on Armenia.