YEREVAN. – Iranian-Armenian writer and publicist Violet Grigoryan—who now lives in Armenia—on Friday joined the hunger strike by opposition Heritage Party leader, former FM Raffi Hovannisian—who is declared runner-up to the winner, incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, as a result of the presidential election that was conducted on February 18, but who claims to be the real winner in the vote and who declared a hunger strike on March 10 at capital city Yerevan’s Liberty Square—and his supporters. Grigoryan had written about this intention of hers in her Facebook account on Thursday.  

“Tomorrow, I will go to a one-day hunger strike of support; I will sit beside Raffi. Anyone joining?” Grigoryan had written. 

In his turn, Heritage’s representative Davit Sanasaryan wrote as follows in his Facebook account:

“Violet Grigoryan joined the hunger strike. At present, she is sitting beside me [and] reading in Farsi the book [entitled] Conversations with 11 Well-Known Women Writers.”