EPP urges Georgian authorities to transfer Mikheil Saakashvili to civil hospital

The European People’s Party (EPP) is “concerned with reported Mikheil Saakashvili’s health deteriorated conditions.”

EPP urges Georgian authorities to transfer urgently former President Saakashvili “to an appropriate civil hospital; by not doing so, authorities bear responsibility for any aggravation of his health.”

We are concerned with reported @SaakashviliM‘s health deteriorated conditions. We call on Georgian authorities to transfer urgently former President Saakashvili to an appropriate civil hospital; by not doing so, authorities bear responsibility for any aggravation of his health.

— EPP (@EPP) October 27, 2021

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.