Armenia boxers visit world boxing champion on hunger strike

YEREVAN. – Israyel Hakobkokhyan, Armenia’s world boxing champion who has been on hunger strike in downtown Yerevan for five days now, was visited Monday by his fellow boxer friends who had come to be by his side, as well as to persuade him to end his hunger strike, as, according to them, it will harm his health.

The fellow boxers, however, could not persuade Hakobkokhyan to end his hunger strike.

World boxing champion Israel Hakobkokhyan has been on a hunger strike since August 12, and against the incumbent authorities’ policy, which, according to him, violates Armenian national values. He is protesting against the Istanbul and the Lanzarote Conventions, the Amulsar gold mine project, and some other matters.