Georgian former president Mikheil Saakashvili has requested bringing his lawyer Nika Gvaramia, who also chairs the opposition-mindedc Mtavari TV, and Ukrainian consul to Gldani Prison No.18 hospital to make a decision whether or not to accept a trans...
Droa opposition party leader Elene Khoshtaria has stopped her 17-day hunger strike as former president Mikheil Saakashvili was offered transfer to Gori military hospital by the Ministry of Justice earlier today. “Saakashvili being transferred to ...
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria says that former president Mikheil Saakashvili should call off his 50-day hunger strike as the protest may lead to fatal consequences. She says that after Saakashvili suspends his hunger strike, the Europea...
Head of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party, Nika Melia, stated at the opposition rally in central Tbilisi now that no one will leave the site until they understand the decision of former president Mikheil Saakashvili on his transfer ...
US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan says that she is concerned by the health condition of former president Mikheil Saakashvili, after he reportedly fainted in prison yesterday on his 49th day of hunger strike, and stated that ‘when human life is at...
The Georgian Justice Ministry has offered former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike since October 1, a transfer to Gori military hospital in central Georgia, ‘where his health and life will be fully protected.’ The offe...
The ruling Georgian Dream party MP, former health minister David Sergeenko says that former president Mikheil Saakashvili needs a consultation of five doctors after he fainted in prison yesterday, on the 49th day of his hunger strike. Sergeenko,...
Amnesty International has called on the Georgian government to respect the work of Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria. “Attacks against the Georgian ombudsperson doing their human rights work are unacceptable. The Government should respect an...
‘If the US doesn’t come to my defense it would be a terrible signal to all pro-Western leaders and populations’, Bloomberg has cited arrested former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili as saying. In his notes sent to Bloomberg, Saakashvili,...
The US Department of State says that they are closely following the treatment of former President Mikheil Saakashvili since his arrest in Tbilisi on October 1. They commended the oversight work of the Georgian Public Defender in establishing an ...