Javakhk-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan, whom Georgian authorities had sentenced to 10 years in confinement and who is serving his sentence at a top-security prison in Georgia, ended his hunger strike declared on October 5.

Program coordinator of the Union of Armenian organizations on repatriation Robert Tonoyan said the hunger strike yielded certain results. In particular, conditions in jail were improved, he was also allowed to hold meetings.

“Even Georgian media wrote about Chakhalyan’s hunger strike,” Tonoyan said adding that he is not the only person persecuted in Georgia for political reasons.

Chakhalyan’s attorney Stepan Voskanyan said he is discriminated in the Georgian prison, not allowed to have water and buy something, for instance, sugar. According to him, Chakhalyan met with his relatives only once in three years, while phone calls are constantly interrupted.

Javakhk (Georgian name: Javakheti) is an Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti province.