YEREVAN. – The committee prescribing a methadone treatment approved the appeal of the Nubarashen penitentiary prisoner Arthur Smbatyan, who had earlier sewed own mouth and nailed own feet and involved the prisoner in the state financed project, Armenian Ministry of Justice informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.

To note, recently media outlets have published the appeal of the prisoner, whose mother Roza Sardaryan in her letter on Tuesday was claiming that the penitentiary authorities reject to involve her son in that project citing different reasons.

Persons involved in the Methadone Substitution Treatment (MST) are obliged not to take drugs without doctors’ prescription during the whole period of the treatment, ministerial website informs.