Lifers Aram Petrosyan has been on hunger strike since September 13, Armen Ter-Sahakyan—since September 27, and Alik Grigoryan—since September 29, informed Nona Navikyan, head of the public relations department of the Penitentiary Service of Armenia.

"The above-mentioned persons serving a life sentence have declared a hunger strike due to the Prosecutor's Office decision, according to which the decision of the Placement Commission of the Central Body of the Penitentiary Service has been suspended, and the convicts have been returned again to a semi-closed correctional facility from a semi-open correctional facility.

The employees of the Department of Social, Psychological and Legal Affairs of the Central Body of the Penitentiary Service, the supervising prosecutor, as well as the representatives of the Human Rights Defender have visited Aram Petrosyan," Navikyan added.