Justice minister says if Saakashvili accepts, medical council’s recommendations will be met

Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze says that if Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakasvili accepts, all recommendations of a medical council, which gathered in Rustavi Prison No.12 yesterday to check Saakashvili’s health, will be fulfilled. 

According to one of the doctors and Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, Saakashvili’s health condition, on the 19th day of hunger strike, is satisfactory. However, the situation may worsen any moment and the council recommended Saakashvili’s hospitalisation. 

However, until conscious, a prisoner will not be hospitalised if he is against it. 

Saakashvili was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1, a day before Georgian municipal elections, after eight years in political exile. 

He claims he returned to help his United National Movement opposition party to change the Georgian Dream leadership. 

Saakashvili, who is now a citizen of Ukraine, was convicted in Georgia in absentia back in 2018 for abuse of authority. 

He has also been charged with four other offences which are still in courts.