{"id":14847,"date":"2023-09-04T17:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/news\/14847\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:23:10","slug":"armavir-khkh-um-hacadul-haytararatc-kalanavor-e-mahacel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/14847\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner on hunger strike dies in Armavir Criminal-Executive Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sept. 4, a prisoner died in the Armavir<br>\nCriminal-Executive Institution. The cause of death was starvation that resulted<br>\nfrom a hunger strike.&nbsp;<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Head of Public Relations Division of the RA MoJ Criminal<br>\nExecutive Department Nona Navikyan told <strong>ABC Media<\/strong> that prisoner G. S. &mdash; whose<br>\nname they are not willing to make public &mdash; was undergoing treatment in Hospital<br>\nfor the Convicted criminal-executive institution. He went on hunger strike<br>\nimmediately after being discharged from hospital.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The convict went on strike on Aug. 31; according to the<br>\nambulance staff, his biological death occurred on Sept. 4.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;He went on hunger strike as he did not want to leave<br>\nhospital,&rdquo; Nona Navikyan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the World Health Organization, a person can<br>\nsurvive without food for about three or four weeks. However, the convict died<br>\nfour days after going on hunger strike. Thus, claims that he was in a good<br>\nstate of health cannot be accepted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nona Navikyan, however, did not want to say why he was<br>\ndischarged from hospital and urged us to contact the Hospital for the Convicted<br>\nwith that regard. However, they did not answer our phone call.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">This has been the second case in Armenia that a convict dies<br>\nbecause of a hunger strike. The first case was recorded in 2018: Journalist Mher<br>\nYeghiazaryan died after a 44-day hunger strike in the Nubarashen<br>\ncriminal-executive institution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; \"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 4, a prisoner died in the Armavir Criminal-Executive Institution. The cause of death was starvation that resulted from a hunger strike.&nbsp; Head of Public Relations Division of the RA MoJ Criminal Executive Department Nona Navikyan told ABC Media that prisoner G. S. &mdash; whose name they are not willing to make public &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}