Office of RA Ombudsman considers appeal of Nubarashen jail prisoners

PanARMENIAN.Net - Spokesperson for the RA Ombudsman Tsovinar Khachatryan said that the Office of RA Ombudsman considers the appeal of Nubarashen jail prisoners, who have launched a hunger strike and demanded provision of normal living conditions.

Khachatryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that on March 17 the Office of RA Ombudsman received a letter from relatives of the prisoners, who have launched a hunger strike, presenting in detail all their complaints.

“We consider the case and are going to address all the provisions in it,” said Khachatryan.

Reports saying that the prisoners of Nubarashen jail have stopped their hunger strike are not true to fact. As a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter learned from a reliable source, Sergey Movsisyan, Manuk Semerjyan, Sergey Petrosyan and Arsen Arushanyan are resolved to continue the hunger strike unless relevant institutions or representatives of international organization come to meet their demands. As it turned out, recently the jail administration welded iron bars inside the cells a meter far from the window, what psychologically suppresses the prisoners, who were deprived of the possibility to approach the window. The reason behind the decision was an escape attempt by one of the prisoners during a walk. Besides, the prisoners have serious health problems and many of them need dietary food. However, the administration continues to neglect all calls to improve the living conditions. Relatives have been barred from bringing uncooked vegetables or grains. As a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter was told, 15 people died because of inhuman living conditions last year.