Patriarch asks jailed ex-president to quit hunger strike
Patriarch asks jailed ex-president to quit hunger strike

Archpriest Mikael Botkoveli, former Secretary of Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, arrived at the N12 Rustavi Prison to visit the jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.

Speaking with the media, Archpriest Mikael Botkoveli explained he came to pass the Patriarch’s letter to Mikheil Saakashvili, where his Holiness and Beatitude urges him to stop the hunger strike.

Mikael Botkoveli denied the Catholicos-Patriarch, and Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili discussed a presidential pardon for Saakashvili during the November 3 meeting. He said the parties spoke about the epidemiological situation and pandemic surge.

Law enforcers arrested 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.