Special Penitentiary Service: reports on Saakashvili’s transfer to Gori hospital ‘lie’


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Front News Georgia
The Georgian Special Penitentiary Service has dismissed reports by Saakashvili’s lawyer, Nika Gvaramia, that the former president may be transferred to a Gori hospital, due to a worsened health, where from he will be kidnapped by de facto Tskhinvali special unit servicemen.
“No transfer to Gori is planned. The statement is incorrect and misleading,” said the Special Penitentiary Service.
Saakashvili has been on hunger strike since his arrest in Tbilisi on Octopre 1, and has been demanding his transportation to a civil clinic, declining the government’s offers to receive treatment in a prison clinic.
Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvikli has stated that the opposition has plans to spark destabilisation if Saakashvili is brought to a civil clinic.
Saakashvili, who is a citizen of Ukraine and currently chairs the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council, was arrested in Tbilisi a day before Georgian municipal elections on October 2.
He says he returned to the country after eight years in political exile, ‘to save Georgia’ from the ‘pro-Russian rule’ of the Georgian Dream government.
In 2018, the Tbilisi City Court twice tried Saakashvili in absentia and sentenced him to six years in prison for abuse of power.
