Epress.am News from Armenia
The students who have been on a hunger strike to protest against the abolishment of military draft deferments were examined by doctors on the evening of December 18, Epress.am was told by Davit Petrosyan, one of the protesting students.
Note, in conversation with Tert.am, Yerevan State University rector Aram Simonyan had doubted that the students were actually refusing to eat any food.
“Tell me please why I should even negotiate with them. I’m not even convinced that they are not eating anything. Davit Petrosyan is a big boy; if he has decided that he is going to starve himself, I’m going to let him do that,” Simonyan had said.
According to Petrosyan, the doctors have managed to put an end to the rector’s doubts: “The doctors came to examine us at 9pm yesterday. We wanted them to come and see that we were in fact not eating anything because there were people who doubted us, including our rector. They checked us and confirmed that we are actually on a hunger strike.”