Saakashvili wishes journalists to attend tomorrow’s ‘shameful trial’ in his case

Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili wishes journalists to be allowed to attend tomorrow’s trial hearing in an embezzlement case concerning him instead of his relatives or politicians. 

The case concerns embezzlement of more than eight million GEL in state funds for clothes while Saakashvili was in  power. 

“I wish journalists to attend the historically shameful hearing,” Saakashvili wrote on Facebook.

Son Eduard Saakashvili and Mother Giuli Alasania visited Saakashvili in Gori military hospital earlier today. 

Eduard Saakashvili said that the former president is ‘psychologically fit’ to attend the trial hearing tomorrow. 

“I hope that he will be allowed to attend the trial,” Eduard Saakashvili said. 

Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1 after eight years in political exile. 

He says he returned to remove the Georgian Dream government from power. 

Saakashvili was convicted in absentia in Georgia for abuse of power back in 2018 and was sentenced to six years in prison. 

He has also been charged with five other offences. 

Saakashvili was allowed to attend a trial hearing on the November 2007 opposition rally dispersal case on Monday, after he suspended his 50-day hunger strike. 

Fifteen individuals were arrested by police on the day at the court for disobedience to law enforcement officers.