MEP Anna Fotyga in Georgia to see Saakashvili in prison

MEP Anna Fotyga arrived in Georgia late yesterday to see Georgian former president Mikheil Saakashvili in Gldani Prison No.18 hospital in the coming hours, on his 43rd day of hunger strike. 

Saakashvili said yesterday that he is ready to call off his hunger strike if he is brought to a civil clinic. 

However, the government says that the demand will not be fulfilled. 

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.