The Human Rights Defender’s Office of Armenia regularly
has received oral complaints that persons detained in Armavir Penitentiary
Institution of the Ministry of Justice are on hunger strike for a long time.
The representatives of the Defender’s Office, who have
regularly received information about their health status during the hunger strike,
as well as the reasons for latter, discussed the raised issues with the
representatives of Penitentiary Medicine Centre SNPO.
As a result of the discussion, the persons on hunger
strike underwent another medical examination and received professional counseling,
as a result of which one of them was transferred to the "Central
Hospital" penitentiary institution of Ministry of Justice.
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