Minutes ago, Souren Makaryan, who heads the intensive care unit at Yerevan’s Armenia Medical Center, told Hetq that Artur Sargsyan has been transferred from the unit to a general ward since his condition has considerably improved.
Several political parties in Armenia petitioned the Prosecutor General saying they would guarantee that Artur Sargsyan would not flee if released.
Gyurjyan says Sargsyan wants to publicly thank all those who have demonstrated calling for his release form pretrial detention.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Aram Tatoyan told reporters in Yerevan today that Artur Sargsyan, the man who ferried food to members of the armed Sasna Dzrer group holed up in a Yerevan police station after having seized it last July and presently awaiting trial, has again refused to be transferred to a civilian hospital.
Artur Sargsyan, arrested yesterday for not showing up after being summoned to a case hearing, has gone on hunger strike at the Convicts’ Hospital.