Saakashvili releases letter from prison: my freedom, country’s freedom dependent on voters’ activeness

Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who was arrested in Tbilisi yesterday, has released a letter from the 12th prison in Rustavi and called on voters to cast ballots in today’s municipal elections and then defend the votes. 

 

Saakashvili says that ‘my freedom, and what is far more important, the country’s freedom’, is dependent on the voters’ activeness now. 

 

He says that he knew he would be arrested in Tbilisi and left Ukraine anyway. 

 

Saakashvili said that all  charges brought against him in Georgia are unfounded and once was the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

 

Saakashvili has been convicted in absentia in Georgia to six years in prison in two cases, while three other cases are still in courts. 

 

He says that the Georgian Dream government serves the Russian goals and the authorities ‘must be changed to save the country.’