{"id":273259,"date":"2016-06-20T16:44:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273259"},"modified":"2016-06-20T16:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:44:48","slug":"jailed-veteran-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-demand-better-detention-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/06\/20\/jailed-veteran-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-demand-better-detention-conditions.html","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Veteran Goes on Hunger Strike to Demand Better Detention Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran, reserve army colonel Volodya Avetisyan went on an open-ended hunger strike Monday, demanding better detention conditions and fair parole consideration from the administration of Yerevan&#39;s Vardashen prison, Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor office reports.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAvetisyan had written an open letter late last week on behalf of himself and several other Vardashen prisoners to Armenia&#39;s General Prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan, Minister of Justice Arpine Hovhannisyan as well as three opposition lawmakers, warning about a resulting hunger strike in case prison administration failed to improve &nbsp;the convicts&#39; detention conditions and if they were not given fair and objective consideration for parole.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Courts have deprived us of our freedom of movement, of our rights to sleep, to medical treatment, to parole and to an open regime,&rdquo; Avetisyan had particularly written, saying that the convicts would go on a hunger strike if the prison did not immediately take on these issues and well as organize a meeting with the protesting inmates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Note, investigation against Volodya Avetisyan started in 2013. In summer 2014, a Yerevan first instance court found him guilty of fraud and attempted fraud and sentenced him to 6.5 years in jail. According to the indictment, Avetisyan received $2,000 from Henrikh Zakaryan to exempt his grandson from compulsory military service and attempted to receive $500 from Albert Matosyan to transfer his son to another military unit. All higher judicial instances subsequently upheld the verdict.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avetisyan had written an open letter late last week on behalf of himself and several other Vardashen prisoners to Armenia&#8217;s General Prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan, Minister of Justice Arpine Hovhannisyan&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}