Jailed ex-president complaints of shortened communication with lawyers

13:32, 28.10.2021

Jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili published on Facebook that he was shortened the communication with lawyers with a glass wall fully built in a meeting room, thus depriving them of document exchange.

According to Saakashvili, such restrictions never happened in Georgia or Europe. “There is no court or prosecution in Georgia, and we know that. Now the trial advocacy was abolished,” ex-president claimed.

Ex-president further informed that as of today, he categorically rejects any health survey, treatment and reanimation services related to his hunger strike. That will continue until his right to unhindered relations with defence is restored.

“I am actually in the Russian prison, and the prison staff treats me like Russians do. Today I met Ukrainian Ombudsman Ludmila Denisova, whom I am grateful. She also remarked that she felt herself in Russia, not Georgia,” Mikheil Saakashvili said.

Law enforcers arrested Mikheil Saakashvili in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on October 1 and sent him to N12 Rustavi prison. Ex-president has been on a hunger strike since the very first day of his arrest.

By - Elene Dobordjginidze

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