Ex-president Saakashvili's arrest to be challenge, MP Samadashvili says
Ex-president Saakashvili's arrest to be challenge, MP Samadashvili says

Former member of United National Movement (UNM) party Salome Samadashvili has visited jailed ex-president, UNM founder Mikheil Saakashvili in prison. She said she did so as he is on a hunger strike, and his health state is a ‘number one concern.’

Opposition MP believes Saakashvili is “politically persecuted by the ruling Georgian Dream, which hinders Georgia on its path to EU and NATO integration.”

“Saakashvili’s detention is a challenge facing the country and the state,” she stated.

Law enforcers arrested Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi on October 1 and sent him behind bars. Saakashvili, who started a hunger strike a day after his arrest, is charged with several criminal offences.