On Wednesday at 7։30am, Armenia’s Goris town resident Artur Sayunts (born in 1988), a defendant in a criminal case pending in court, was found dead at the Goris penitentiary where he was an inmate.

His body was found hanging from the bars of his cell window, and with a sheet.

The Investigative Committee of Armenia has launched a criminal case to ascertain the circumstances behind this incident.

An investigation is underway.

Sayunts was imprisoned on March 29.

He was charged with organizing smuggling of about 200 grams of opium from Iran, and attempting to obtain narcotics.