The largest opposition United National Movement (UNM) party held a protest rally at the Georgian parliament building on Saturday.

The protesters once again demanded the jailed and hunger-striking ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s transferring from the prison infirmary to a civic hospital.

The speakers said that Saakashvili’s custody symbolized imprisonment of Georgia and Georgian people.

“We should continue to shake this regime until it collapses,” was the main message to the gathered people from the last speaker at the rally, Nika Melia, the UNM chair.

Nika Melia vowed the government should have no illusion that the protest wave would cease, promising peaceful protests at different locations daily.

Law enforcers arrested Mikheil Saakashvili in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on October 1. He has been on a hunger strike since the very first day of his arrest.

On November 10, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) urged the ex-president to call off his hunger strike. The Court further decided that the Government should ensure his safety in prison and provide him with appropriate medical care for the post-hunger strike recovery period.