The former President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, announced that he was starting a hunger strike again until he would receive guarantees for connecting him to a court meeting in the video. The letter of Saakashvili read out lawyer Shalva Khachapuridze to reporters. This was reported on Wednesday, December 14, “News-Georgia”.
“I am aware of all the risks, given my current state of health, but I will starve until I get solid guarantees to include at least the video,” the letter says.
According to him, “all ridicule and humiliation are the limit.” “Today I was refused the most elementary: the right to attend my own trial. This is a violation of all Georgian and international norms, so I have to resort to an extreme form of protest – a hunger strike,” Saakashvili said.
On Wednesday, in the Tbilisi City Court, the process was supposed to begin at the request of lawyers from postponing punishment and release for health reasons Mikhail Saakashvili. Last week, the meeting was postponed, as the judge gave time to organize the remote presence of Saakashvili on the process. Today, the penitentiary service said that this is impossible for technical reasons.