Famous Armenian boxer Israel Hakobkokhyan goes on hunger strike

Famous Soviet Armenian boxer, Merited Master of Sport Israel Hakobkokhyan on Thursday went on a hunger strike in front of the government building near the statue of Garegin Nzhdeh in Yerevan.

Hakobkokhyan placed a poster next to him presenting his demands. 

The boxer’s hunger strike is against the Istanbul Convention, Lanzarote Convention, Amulsar gold mine operation, “falsification of the Armenian history”, “violence”, etc.