EPP urges Georgian authorities to transfer Mikheil Saakashvili to civil hospital
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.”

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.