Life- Sentenced Arthur Mkrtchyan Has Started Hunger Strike

It is alreay three days since Arthur Mkrtchyan, an inmate sentenced to life imprisonment and who is serving his punishment for 14 years now at the Nubarashen prison has started a hunger strike.

Mkrtchyan has also sent a letter to Gevorg Danielyan, Justice Minister of the Republic of Armenia, demanding a fair examination and an unbiased sentence based exclusively on the law.

Artur Mkrtchyan was found guilty for having killed 5 soldiers during his temporary military service in Noyemberyan, north-east of Armenia, in 1996 which Mkrtchyan claims is a trumped-up charge saying it were officers of the military police who killed those soldiers.

He also claims he was subjected to degraded treatment and was forced to give false testimony which served as basis for the court to reach the verdict.