The former Georgian President (2004-2013) ceased to feed on October 1 to protest his incarceration on his return after years of exile.
Le Monde with AFP
The authorities of Georgia transferred, on the night of Friday, 20 to Saturday, November 20, the opponent and former President Mikheil Saakashvili in a military hospital, after doctors said feared for his life after fifty days of Hunger strike in detention.
m. Saakachvili “has been transferred from a penitentiary hospital to a military hospital” in the city of Gori, about 90 km from the capital, Tbilisi, announced to the France-Presse agency (AFP) his lawyer, M E DITO SADZAGLICHVILI.
Thousands of supporters of Mr. Saakachvili, 53, had fallen on the street Friday night in Tbilisi, the Capital, to claim guarantees of adequate medical assistance for the former leader of this Caucasus country, considered. Currently as the opposition leader.
Risk of “irreversible” “irreversible” evils
Former Georgian President (2004-2013) has ceased to feed on the October 1 to protest against his incarceration on his return after years of exile. Thursday, he fainted during a meeting with his lawyers.
The Georgian authorities first rejected the recommendations of physicians to hospitalize in a civilian establishment, before changing your Friday. “Our proposal is to transfer it to a military hospital,” said the Minister of Justice at a press conference at a press conference. The Gori Military Hospital “is a place where its health and safety may be protected by the state,” he said, while accusing the opposition to “exploit the health of Saakashvili to his Policies derisory “.
This declaration intervened while Dr. Guiorgui Grigolia, who examined Mr. Saakashvili after his discomfort from Thursday, said to AFP that his “life is threatened” and “must be transferred to a clinic Civil without delay “, citing cardiac and neurological problems in his patient. These ills “could become irreversible or even be fatal without adapted care, but these are impossible in the medical facility where it is”, had judged the practitioner.
Scandal
Nika Melia, President of the Uni National Movement (MNU) – The main force of the opposition in Georgia – assured that the mobilization was going to continue “until Saakashvili is transferred to an adequate clinic”.
m. Saakashvili was transferred on 8 November of his prison to a penitentiary hospital, his health degrading because of his refusal to eat. At the beginning of the week, a medical advice of the Georgian mediator for human rights had felt that the state of the former president was critical and had requested his transfer to an intensive care unit of a better equipped civil institution .
Thursday evening, a spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, called on Tbilisi to follow the recommendation of doctors and to “treat Mr. Saakashvili in a fair and dignity way”.
On 11 November, the former leader announced that it would end its hunger strike in case of transfer to a civilian “high-tech clinic”.
Mr. Saakachvili’s arrest has exacerbated a political crisis in 2020 legislative elections, narrowly won by the Georgian Dream Party in power, and that the opposition has deemed fraudulent. PRO-WEST PRESIDENT from 2004 to 2013 and now considered the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Saakashvili returned to Georgia on the October 1, after an eight-year-old exile. Immediately arrested, he was imprisoned pursuant to a conviction for “abuse of power”, that he judges purely political. Prime Minister Irakli Garibachvili has made scandal by stating that Mr. Saakachvili “had the right to commit suicide” and that the government had been obliged to arrest him because he had refused to give up politics.