ANC: Political prisoners having serious health problems are
in fact tortured by not receiving proper medical aid
16-03-2009 18:05:00 | Armenia | Politics
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian National
Congress (ANC) spread a statement, according to which "political
prisoners having health problems, but not receiving proper
medical aid by regime's order thus are subjected to tortures, a
peculiar form of reprisal is used to them." According to the
statement authors, irrespective of the reasons, it is
considered a torture by Article 3 of the European Convention of
Human Rights.
"We demand immediately stopping the tortures of political
prisoners, ensuring necessary and high-quality medical aid. The
whole responsibility for their current hard health condition and
for its further worsening lays on the regime and personally on
Serzh Sargsyan," the ANC statement read.
The statement mentioned that political prisoner Grigor
Voskerchian's health condition abruptly worsened in the
imprisonment place. He had an infarct 3 years ago. "There is an
apprehension that the infarct is likely to recur under these
conditions. The imprisonment place lacks possibilities for
providing proper medical aid to him," stating this, ANC demands
providing a high-quality specialized medical aid at a hospital to
Grigor Voskerchian. According to the statement authors,
political prisoner Shant Haroutiunian also continues to be
tortured the same way. "The health condition of other political
prisoners has also worsened in essence, whose complaints were
never paid any attention to."