“I underwent two surgeries and was transferred to the prison infirmary in such a condition,” former Georgian Energy Minister Davit Mirtskhulava told POSTV.

According to Mirtskhulava, he saw his family members 8 years after his arrest. He said when transferring to the prison infirmary, he was placed on an asphalt road in January. There were no medicines or doctors in the prison infirmary. No lawyer was allowed there to visit him.

Mirtskhulava was arrested in December of 2003 following Rose Revolution in Georgia and was charged with abuse of power. Acting president Nino Burjanadze pardoned him together with the former head of Chamber of Control Sulkhan Molashvili.

The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) discussed Davit Mirtskhulava’s lawsuit in 2015 and ruled that the government violated the European Convention and obliged the Georgian side to pay EUR 5 000 to the plaintiff as a compensation. Davit Mirtskhulava fully agreed with the decision.