ARMENIAN CONVICTS SENTENCED TO LIFE DEMAND APPEALS

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Sept 22 2014

22 September 2014 – 2:53pm

Zarui Medzhlumyn, the head of the Armenian Innocence Program, said
that about 40 people serving life imprisonment have declared a hunger
strike and demanded an appeal, according to amendments to the Armenian
Criminal Code passed on May 25, 2011, Trend reports.

The hunger strike has been ongoing since July, when the ministry
assured convicts that certain steps would be made in a month.

From: Baghdasarian