YEREVAN. – Artur Sargsyan, a.k.a. the Food Provider, was released from the prison hospital in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

Subsequently, he was ambulanced to “Armenia” Medical Center, the Armenian News-NEWS.am reporter informed from the scene. 

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia on Monday lifted the preventive measure of arrest that was imposed for Sargsyan.

Artur Sargsyan, who is charged with aiding the Sasna Tsrer armed group, was released on December 31, 2016, since he had an illness that was incompatible with imprisonment. 

On February 9, however, he was arrested again.

Sargsyan went on hunger strike, and demanded that his preventive measure of arrest be commuted.

The Sasna Tsrer armed group took over a police patrol regiment building in Yerevan, took hostages, but later surrendered, in July 2016. 

On July 26, Artur Sargsyan had broken through a police wall with a vehicle loaded with food, and delivered food to members of this armed group.