“The more international consensus on Saakashvili’s life in danger, the sooner is the increased chances and the outcome to transfer him abroad for medication, said Eduard Saakashvili, the son of Georgia’s jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in Strasbourg at the event organized by Renew Europe political group.

Eduard Saakashvili said that a year and a half ago, he and the family prepared for the possibility that Mikheil Saakashvili would be going back to Georgia from Ukraine and might go to jail for a long time. However, nobody imagined that he would have to fight for his life.

According to Eduard Saakashvili, the ruling Georgian Dream party representatives constantly repeated that the ex-president was simulating his declining health condition and weakness, accusing him of self-inflicting the damage.

“I can assure you that my father is desperate to live. That is why we are here to help him to live, to find a way out from this awful situation,” he said.

The ex-president’s son went on to say that the powerful government decided and “was stubborn to keep Mikheil Saakashvili in prison no matter what.”

“But what gives us hope is the rising international awareness and attention on this issue. It is extremely important to continue it and to keep it up to this level of awareness,” he said.

Eduard Saakashvili said that recently French President Macron, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy, and 27 members of the EU as well as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International called for his release; the European Parliament adopted multiple resolutions.

He said that “the more international consensus on Saakashvili’s life in danger, the sooner is the increased chances and the outcome to transfer him abroad for medication.”

“When my father gets healthy and receives treatment abroad and I believe this will happen, I will be incredibly grateful and honored, and I think it will be on the large part of the people in this room and elsewhere to be involved in this efforts together,” he said.

The issue of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili is discussed in the European Parliament today at the event organized by Renew Europe political group titled Political Prisoners Ordered to Die: Kara-Murza, Gorinov and Saakashvili.

The event aims to support high-profile political prisoners in Russia and Georgia: Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alexei Gorinov who have been politically persecuted for opposing Vladimir Putin and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.