Sari Tagh residents start sit-down strike outside Prosecutor’s Office (video)

The relatives of the detainees along lines of the case into Sari Tagh events today have started sit-down strike outside the Prosecutor’s Office. “The situation is extreme; my husband has been holding hunger strike for already 4 days and he isn’t even given pills for his blood pressure. They say that ‘you are holding hunger strike and we have no right,’” says Lala Bernetsyan, wife of Eduard Zeytunyan. Aghavni Zhamkochyan, grandmother of Hrachya Boyajyan, adds that for already 9 months they haven’t been able to receive a concrete answer. “We want our children to be freed, we don’t want anything else. He had been married for only 3 months, when he was arrested.” The residents of Sari Tagh 10 are accused of use of dangerous violence against the government representative. The relatives claim that during the days following seizure of the police regiment, they simply demanded to turn on their electricity and water supply and open closed roads. “There is no concrete guilt. I can bring forward so many facts. In the end it isn’t Bible, which says that God’s ways are unknown for people. It is a simple Prosecutor’s Office, which must give concrete answers to our questions. There are no answers, but only people, who have been in custody for 9 months. In a small city 10 inmates from a district,” adds Toros Torosyan, brother of detained Harutyun Torosyan. Ten detainees of Sari Tagh 10 are beneficiaries of “Freedom and homeland” fund. The families of 10 detainees are in socially vulnerable situation. “If at the moment they come here and hold sit-down strike, a problem with taking care of their children comes forward, because as of now those women work for keeping their families,” says Ani Kaghinyan, Executive Director of the Fund.