Paata Burchuladze begins hunger strike in support of Saakashvili
Paata Burchuladze begins hunger strike in support of Saakashvili

Georgia’s opera singer Paata Burchuladze has kicked off a hunger strike demanding Mikheil Saakashvili’s transfer to a civilian clinic from the prison hospital.

Earlier Droa leader Elene Khoshtaria went on a hunger strike while nine MPs from the United National Movement parliamentary bloc Akaki Minashvili, Temur Janashia, Bachuki Kardava, Nika Machutadze, Levan Bezhashvili, Giorgi Godabrelidze, Abdula Ismailov, Davit Kirkitadze, and Sulkhan Sibashvili joined her on November 14.

Law enforcers arrested Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on October 1. He has been on a hunger strike since the very first day of his arrest.