YEREVAN, JULY 23, NOYAN TAPAN. Arman Babajanian, the editor-in-chief of the Zhamanak Yerevan newspaper, on June 21, submitted an application to the management of the Nubarashen penitentiary institution, on stopping the hunger strike he went on the day before. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Syuzan Simonian, the Spokesperson of the Penitentiary Institutions Department of the RA Ministry of Justice, A. Babajanian's health condition is normal. According to Armine Ohanian, the editor of the Zhamanak Yerevan newspaper, A. Babajanian made the decision to stop the hunger strike after the visit of the chief of the above mentioned department and after "making some arrangement" with him. It should be mentioned that A. Babajanian sentenced to 3.5 years' imprisonment for evading military service had gone on a hunger strike as a token of protest against the respective commission's dismissing the penitentiary institution's application to release him ahead of the schedule.

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