Raffi Hovhannisyan stops hunger strike
17:53 • 30.03.11
Leader of the opposition Heritage party Raffi Hovhannisyan has stopped his hunger strike on Yerevan's Freedom Square.
On the 15th day of his protest ('fasting for freedom"), the Heritage leader voiced his intention to end his hunger strike. Hovhannisyan called priest Grigor Hovhannisyan to the square for a bread consecration ceremony that would symbolize what he called "the first act of a freedom campaign."
"But this doesn't mark the end of the struggle," he said.
After a prayer, Hovhannisyan was asked to taste a piece of consecrated bread.
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