Forty-one of 51 convicts serving time for
capital crimes have gone on a hunger strike
at a state prison in the Nubarashen district
of Yerevan. The prisoners are demanding
a meeting with representatives of the European
Union, Council of Europe and the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
to protest changes in their sentences.
Specifically, the prisoners are demanding
that the overseeing bodies review their
cases, now that Armenia has done away with
the death penalty.
The powerful earthquake that hit the Iranian
city of Bam and killed about 40,000 people
last month caused controversial comments
among Armenian seismologists.
The President of the Armenian Association
of Seismologists and Earth Physics invited
journalists to a press conference last week
to announce that the earthquake in Iran
would cause a high seismic activity in the
next 12 months in the whole region including
Armenia.
Armenia Armed: Republic's
first gun show featured international firepower
By Gayane Mkrtchyan ArmeniaNow reporter
Moving ever closer to achieving Wild West
aspirations, Armenia had its first gun show
last week.
Organized by the Union of Hunters and Fisherman
of Armenia, the show and sale attracted
about 35 to 40 to the opening out for a
look or a purchase of weapons.
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