A court in Georgia has rejected a request for the postponement and release of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on health grounds. It has been reported TASS with a link to the broadcast of the meeting.
Tbilisi City Court judge Giorgi Arevadze said during the meeting, “To fail to comply with the request of Mikheil Saakashvili’s lawyer, Shalva Khachapuridze, to release Mikheil Saakashvili from the execution of the sentence or to postpone the sentence.”
6 February Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accepted A call to the Georgian government, the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the PACE and the parliaments of EU countries to immediately send Mikheil Saakashvili abroad for treatment.
Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested and imprisoned after he returned to Georgia in October 2021, despite a series of criminal cases against him. Saakashvili himself said that his detention had become politicized and went on a hunger strike. Subsequently, the former president’s health seriously deteriorated, in May 2022 he was transferred from prison to a clinic in the capital for examination.