Saakashvili’s lawyer: ex-president to be kidnapped if taken to Gori hospital

Saakashvili’s lawyer: ex-president to be kidnapped if taken to Gori hospital

Lawyer of Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili, director of the opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi, Nika Gvaramia, claims that they have information that de facto Tskhinvali special unit servicemen may kidnap Saakashvili if he is taken to a Gori military hospital for treatment. 


Saakashvili has been on hunger strike since his arrest in Tbilisi on Octopre 1, and has been demanding his transportation to a civil clinic, declining the government's offers to receive treatment in a prison clinic. 


Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvikli has stated that the opposition has plans to spark destabilisation if Saakashvili is brought to a civil clinic. 


Saakashvili, who is a citizen of Ukraine and currently chairs the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council, was arrested in Tbilisi a day before Georgian municipal elections on October 2.  


He says he returned to the country after eight years in political exile, ‘to save Georgia’ from the ‘pro-Russian rule’ of the Georgian Dream government.  In 2018, the Tbilisi City Court twice tried Saakashvili in absentia and sentenced him to six years in prison for abuse of power.





Lawyer of Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili, director of the opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi, Nika Gvaramia, claims that they have information that de facto Tskhinvali special unit servicemen may kidnap Saakashvili if he is taken to a Gori military hospital for treatment. 


Saakashvili has been on hunger strike since his arrest in Tbilisi on Octopre 1, and has been demanding his transportation to a civil clinic, declining the government's offers to receive treatment in a prison clinic. 


Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvikli has stated that the opposition has plans to spark destabilisation if Saakashvili is brought to a civil clinic. 


Saakashvili, who is a citizen of Ukraine and currently chairs the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council, was arrested in Tbilisi a day before Georgian municipal elections on October 2.  


He says he returned to the country after eight years in political exile, ‘to save Georgia’ from the ‘pro-Russian rule’ of the Georgian Dream government.  In 2018, the Tbilisi City Court twice tried Saakashvili in absentia and sentenced him to six years in prison for abuse of power.