The head of the Georgian Ministry of Justice, Rati Bregadze, said that the Georgian opposition should stop politicizing the issue of imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili and follow the advice of the doctors of the clinic where the politician was treated. It has been reported DEA News.
“The radical opposition needs to stop politicizing this issue (in conjunction with Mikheil Saakashvili). “This is the execution of punishment in a democratic, rule-of-law state, so politics has nothing to do with it,” he said.
According to him, “the patient must follow the advice of the doctors if he wants to get better.”
Pavel Gerchinsky, Former EU Ambassador to Tbilisi declarationIt was reported that the European Union’s application in demarche format was referred to the Ministry of Justice of the republic regarding the situation around Georgia’s former President Mihail Saakashvili, who was imprisoned in his homeland.
Saakashvili returned to his hometown in October 2021, despite a series of criminal cases against him. As a result, the former president of Georgia was arrested and imprisoned. 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.