Ex-president says MEPs urge him to quit hunger strike

19:52, 14.12.2022

Jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili said he had received a message from members of the European Parliament urging him to revoke the hunger strike at this stage “so as not to give an excuse to the relevant services as if I am harming myself.”

The ex-president claimed in a letter read by his attorney Vakhtang Baramashvili that he had been the subject of inhumane treatment for many months, which foreign professionals, including Nobel Prize Laureates, have substantiated.

Saakashvili also thanked MEPs for promising to “mobilize all diplomatic efforts to secure the protection of [his] minimal rights.”

“I am not sick because I purposefully did not eat, but because I am poisoned,” Mikheil Saakashvili wrote.

Mikheil Saakashvili, the imprisoned former president, announced a second hunger strike earlier on Wednesday after being “denied the most fundamental right to attend my own trial” remotely.

By - Elene Dobordjginidze

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