Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili has sent another letter from the 12th Rustavi Prison, saying: “I could not imagine that years later, the death penalty would be put back in Georgia, and ironically, for me.”

In a Facebook post, Saakashvili wrote that at his initiative in 1998, the Georgian Parliament made ‘a historic decision’ to abolish the death penalty in Georgia.

Saakashvili pledges to “starve till the death to contribute to liberate the country and maintain its European path.”

“Therefore, I urge everyone not to prioritize my health issue and overshadow our main goal: the issue of stolen elections and the return of power to the Georgian people,” Saakashvili stated.

Saakashvili’s physician voiced Consilium’s recent decision to transfer Saakashvili to a high-profile medical institution as “some of his tests [blood] came bad and some good.” “I have not seen Saakashvili as I was told he does not want to meet with Consilium.”

Law enforcers arrested Mikheil Saakashvili in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on October 1. He kicked off a hunger striker day after detention.

The ex-president is charged with several criminal offences. In 2018, he was sentenced to six years in prison in absentia for abuse of power.