The lawyer of the third president of Georgia, Valery Gelbakhiani, said that Mykhailo Saakashvili intends to leave politics.
KYIV. UkraineGate . 31 . July . 2022 | Political News.
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The lawyer explains his decision by the fact that he is no longer interested in politics.
The human rights defender emphasized that Saakashvili’s political resource has exhausted itself and his main task is to preserve his health and life after he was detained and taken to prison.
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“The main task of the agenda became the preservation and saving of his life. Therefore, all other issues were removed, in particular politics. He is leaving Georgian politics in general, not only from the “National Movement”. Now it is a matter of life and death, not politics. Obviously, the task completely different than it was before his return,” he said.
Before
Saakashvili, against whom there are several criminal cases in Georgia, was detained on October 1 in Tbilisi. It was reported that he illegally crossed the country’s border.
Immediately after his arrest in Georgia, Saakashvili was placed in prison No. 12 in Rustavi. It is in this penitentiary that, as a rule, former civil servants and employees of law enforcement agencies are detained.
On November 8, the starving Saakashvili was transferred to the prison hospital in the Hldan district of Tbilisi due to the deterioration of his health. Lawyers and a doctor complained about the unbearable conditions of the ex-president’s detention, the constant noise made by the prisoners, as well as the lack of appropriate equipment and a team of doctors in the prison hospital.
Despite the fact that prisoners are usually sent to civilian hospitals for treatment, the penitentiary service refused to extend this rule to Saakashvili, explaining that keeping the president in an unsecured facility could cause mass unrest.
As a compromise, on the 50th day of the hunger strike, on November 20, Saakashvili was transferred to the military hospital in Gori, where he was initially in the intensive care unit, and then underwent a rehabilitation course. Saakashvili stopped his hunger strike there.
Already on December 30, after a course of rehabilitation, he arrived from the military hospital in Gori back to the prison in the city of Rustavi.
Source: Ukrgate