04 August 2016, 19:30
Gukasyan's wife complains about non-admission to her husband kept in isolation
Meeting with relatives are forbidden to Andrias Gukasyan, a member of the civil movement "Get up, Armenia!", who was arrested on suspicion of organizing mass disorder in Yerevan, his wife Anahit Tarkhanyan has stated today.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that at night on July 30, Andrias Gukasyan was arrested on suspicion of organizing mass riots. On August 1, it became known that Gukasyan had been charged; and on the same day he declared a hunger strike.
According to Ms Tarkhanyan, "the last time she saw her husband was on August 1st." "After he was arrested and transferred to the “Nubarashen” Prison, he is forbidden to meet his relatives," she told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, adding that Gukasyan "received both burns from explosions of special means, used by the police on July 29 in central Yerevan, and traumas, when protesters were beaten up by truncheons."
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Author: Armine Martirosyan Source: CK correspondent
