The mother of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili told reporters that in the past 24 hours her son fell twice in hospital and lost consciousness for a short time. Professor Giuli Alasania visits his son every day at the Vivamedi clinic in Tbilisi, where he has been undergoing treatment since May last year.
According to Giuli Alasania, the second time her son fell in her presence, and she, together with a nurse, managed to lift him up with great difficulty before the arrival of the employees of the Department of Corrections, who guarded the service 24 hours out of 24.
Mikheil Saakashvili is serving a six-year prison sentence in Georgia for orchestrating the 2005 beating of opposition lawmaker and businessman Valery Gelashvili, who insulted the president’s wife, Sandra Ruloffs, in an interview to a newspaper. Saakashvili himself categorically denies this accusation, considering the whole trial to be “political” and “fabricated”.
Georgian special services took the ex-president into custody in early October 2021, when he secretly returned to his native country from Ukraine. Saakashvili hid in a container of dairy products on a ship leaving the Ukrainian port of Nikolaev.
Over time, Mikheil Saakashvili’s health deteriorated sharply. He was diagnosed with a number of endocrinological and mental illnesses. The other day, the politician’s lawyers asked the European Court of Human Rights to take an “urgent decision” to suspend the execution of the sentence for a year and transfer Mikheil Saakashvili to a European clinic to be treated there. The verdict of the ECtHR is expected in the coming days.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregvadze, as well as the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream Party, Irakli Kobakhidze, and Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, have repeatedly claimed that Saakashvili “engaged in self-harm” by refusing to eat, as a result of which he has lost 126 kilograms at present.arrest until the present 62’s.
In a column for Politico in April, Saakashvili wrote that he was “fighting for his survival” in a jail cell as a political prisoner.
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