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Mikheil Saakashvili showed resistance when trying to transfer him from a military hospital in Gori to a prison. This was reported on Tuesday, December 28, by the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia. At the same time, as follows from the message, the ex-president felt bad, so the doctors decided to postpone the transfer.

The day before was marked by the search for a compromise and national reconciliation initiated by the incumbent President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili. She received the leader of the largest opposition party United National Movement, founded by Saakashvili, Niku Melia, and the ex-president himself, instead of participating in the trial, met in the Gori hospital with his successor, the fourth president of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili. The staff of the institution did not fix any obstacles.

What the penitentiary service reports

As a DW correspondent reports, the situation around Mikheil Saakashvili escalated sharply half an hour before midnight on Monday, December 27. Lawyers and a personal doctor made a statement that they could not get to him, and did not even know where the politician was. Several film crews of opposition TV channels went to the military hospital in Gori, which made live broadcasts from there.

On the morning of December 28, the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia issued a message “out of great public interest,” which says that on December 27 of this year, after completing the treatment of the convict, the medical staff made a decision to discharge Mikhail Saakashvili from the Gori military hospital.

The ministry further points out that Saakashvili did not obey the lawful demands of the penitentiary service to transfer him to isolation ward No. 12 in the city of Rustavi and “out of concern, he experienced fluctuations in pressure.” As a result, it was decided to “temporarily postpone the legal measure of transfer.”

The version of what happened from Saakashvili

Saakashvili, in turn, through his lawyer Niku Gvaramia voiced his version of what happened. At half past five in the morning, several officers in black uniform appeared in his ward and informed him that he was being transferred from a military hospital, but did not say where. The ex-president felt bad and demanded to measure his blood pressure – it turned out that it had grown to the level of 200/110. Saakashvili believes that he has gone through a hypertensive crisis.

Nevertheless, the staff of the institution tried to take him out by force, and then Saakashvili resisted and lost consciousness. When he woke up, he saw only a doctor next to him, who said that they would not be discharging him from the Gori hospital yet.

Saakashvili case

Mikhail Saakashvili has been in a military hospital in Gori since November 19, where he is undergoing treatment and rehabilitation after a 50-day hunger strike held in Rustavi prison to protest his detention.

The ex-president of Georgia returned from Ukraine to his homeland on October 1 on the eve of local elections to mobilize his supporters. However, almost immediately he was detained, as he was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for abuse of power.

In addition, the ex-president of Georgia is accused at home in three more criminal cases. His associates believe that the politician may again start a hunger strike to protest his transfer to prison before the end of the rehabilitation course.

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