Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili should be treated in freedom, and not in prison conditions. This statement was made by the politician’s personal physician Nikoloz Kipshidze on Sunday, November 21, in an interview with Izvestia.
“It’s my personal opinion. Well, now they will cure him, return to prison, and there he will fall ill again, and again will have to be returned to the hospital. So the whole country will live in stress, ”the doctor said.
He stressed that Saakashvili has many problems, and taking medications does not mean that the ex-president will definitely recover.
“His rehabilitation should be quite long. I don’t know how many months it will take: one, two or four. His rehabilitation should continue for quite a long time, ”Kipshidze concluded.
On November 20, he said that Saakashvili had ended his hunger strike on October 4.
The convicted politician was taken to a military hospital on Saturday, accompanied by ambulances, cars of the execution service and the police. Also with the ex-president were lawyers and his personal doctor.
On November 19, specialists who visited Saakashvili in prison revealed a serious brain disease, due to which he is likely to develop a coma with a possible fatal outcome. In this regard, the Ministry of Justice of Georgia decided to take the ex-president from the intensive care unit of the prison hospital to the military hospital in Gori.
The former Georgian leader was detained October 1 in Tbilisi after his return to the country ahead of local elections. A criminal case was initiated against him on illegal crossing of the country’s border. In addition, the ex-president at home was convicted in absentia of the murder of banker Sandro Girgvliani and the beating of deputy Valery Gelashvili. In the first case, he was sentenced to three years in prison, in the second – to six. Saakashvili is also involved in the cases of dispersal of the opposition rally on November 7, 2007, the pogrom of the Imedi TV company and the embezzlement of funds from the state budget – they continue to be considered by the courts.
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