Georgia’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, states that his transfer to a penitentiary facility happened without warning.

In a letter shared with the media by Saakashvili’s lawyer, the former president notes that his return to prison is intended to “intimidate his numerous supporters” and also “sends a specific message to the West and Ukraine, where he remains registered as chairman of Zelenskyy’s Reform Council to this day”.

“Ivanishvili starts every morning with the obsessive thought: ‘Right, who shall I harm today?’ Well, it was my turn to return to jail. Yesterday, naturally without warning, I was transferred to Rustavi prison, where I encountered precisely those people who poisoned me in March 2022. Back then, I miraculously survived death, and I still bear the symptoms of that poisoning to this day.

My thanks to those doctors at Vivamedi who fought for my life. Against the backdrop of so many prisoners and so much misery, I’m not asking for any special sympathy for myself.

Why have they returned me to my executioners precisely now? Firstly, because they want to intimidate my numerous supporters. Secondly, it sends a specific message to the West and Ukraine, where I remain registered as chairman of Zelenskyy’s Reform Council.

The point is that Ivanishvili once undertook a commitment to preserve my life, and now, with this move, he’s telling the Europeans and Americans that this promise (like all the others) is no longer in force. I’m convinced that all of this has been coordinated with Moscow.

The point is that to the world, I represent the symbol of the most successful reforms in the post-Soviet space, as well as the symbol of Georgia’s freedom and statehood.

They are destroying Georgia’s freedom and independence, and they will destroy me too.

Today, I want to tell everyone what I have been saying all along: under no circumstances should you give up. You must keep fighting, because our victory is inevitable.
Glory to freedom,” Mikheil Saakashvili writes in his letter.

Georgia’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, was moved from the Vivamedi Clinic to Penitentiary facility N12 yesterday, November 12.