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Front News Georgia
Georgian fourth president Giorgi Margvelasvili has addressed the Russians who ‘laugh at’ the videos of third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who was released by the country’s Special Penitentiary Service yesterday, depicting Saakashvili’s transfer from Rustavi prison to Gldani prison hospital on Monday.
“To the Russians who laugh at the videos which show how the third president is insulted: Yes, it was done by Georgians, but by the Georgians who are paid by you. The rest of Georgia is united by hatred to Oprichnina which is strange to our proud and freedom-loving people,” Margvelashvili tweeted.
Russia occupies 20 percent of the Georgian territory and continues creeping occupation of Georgian lands.
The Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia spread two videos of Saakashvili yesterday 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.
The third president was convicted in Georgia back in 2018 for abuse of power in absentia and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Saakashvili also faces five charges related to embezzlement, illegal takeover of property and others.
