Sasun Mikaelyan underwent medical check-up, not surgery

Political prisoner Sasun Mikaelyan currently serving his sentence in the hospital for inmates has been reported to have undergone two heart surgeries.

A statement issued by the Justice Ministry's Penitentiary Department said the information is wrong and aims to render Mikaelyan's health condition as extremely grave. It further says that the convict underwent a stent procedure once while being in detention.

Thereafter, some post-surrgery check-ups were prescribed, the last being conducted on December 22. Some media outlets misrepresented the information by saying that Mikayelyan underwent the second surgery, says the statement.