Ex-PM Kvirikashvili says Saakashvili should be transferred to a civil clinic

Former PM under the Georgian Dream government between 2015 and 2018, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, says that Georgia’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, should receive all medical care which is being demanded by his personal doctor, and he should be transported to a private clinic from a prison hospital.

 

Kvirikashvili also says that the recent release of videos depicting Saakashvili’s transfer to a prison hospital is insulting for all Georgians and makes the enemy happy. 

 

He stated that Saakashvili left behind a ‘very grave inheritance,’ and failed to prevent the occupation of Georgian territories by Russia, noting that Russia was the initiator of the war with Georgia back in 2008. 

 

Kvirikashvili also said that Saakashvili’s guilt has been confirmed by the Eurupean Court of Human Rights in the brutal murder of Sandro Girgvliani. 

 

Saakashvili was convicted in Georgia in absentia back in 2018 for abuse of power and was sentenced to six years in prison for the Girgvliani case and a case of Valeri Gelashvili, a businessman who was severely beaten under Saakashvili’s presidency. 

 

The Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia spread two videos of Saakashvili on November 8 to ‘dismiss accusations’ that Saakashvili was abused by the prison personnel during his transfer to a prison hospital to prevent complications in his health’. 

 

The videos show that Saakashvili did not wish to leave the emergency vehicle and he insulted the people in the car. 

 

The videos also show that Saakashvili was forcibly taken down from the vehicle and brought to the Gldani prison hospital. 

 

Saakashvili says  that the transfer happened against his will and he was physically and verbally abused by the prison personnel.

 

The government said that Saakashvili and his United National Movement party planned unrest at a private clinic if Saakashvili was brought there. 

 

Saakashvili is a citizen of Ukraine and current head of the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council.  

 

He was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1 after eight years in political exile, stating that he returned to remove the Georgian Dream government from power.