Yesterday, Georgian authorities prevented Stepan Voskanyan, lawyer of jailed Javakhk-Armenian activist and leader of the "United Javakhk Alliance" Vahagn Chakhalyan, from seeing his client at the Rustavi #2 prison. Mr. Voskanyan was told by Georgian authorities that his attorney's license had expired but the lawyer argues that his license has no such expiration. In a telephone call to "Hetq", Mr. Voskanyan stated that jail authorities had told him that they would no longer follow the directives of Georgia's Ministry of Justice. "I responded that I have entered the Gldan detention facility with my papers and have been recognized as the attorney for Vahagn Chakhalyan. I have permission to serve as his attorney and such permission has no expiration." The attorney said that he had also petitioned the Georgian human rights ombudsman but that they could offer no assistance.