YEREVAN. – Paramedics on Monday approached Armenia’s world boxing champion Israyel Hakobkokhyan, who is on an indefinite hunger strike in downtown Yerevan, and conducted a medical check-up on him, the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reported from the scene.

Hakobkokhyan was visited by his colleagues, too.

He has been on a hunger strike for five days.

Israel Hakobkokhyan's hunger strike is directed against the Istanbul Convention, the Lanzarote Convention, the Amulsar gold mine project, and some other matters.