Saakashvili: Nika Melia planned to confront me at court hearing, good I didn’t stay at trial

“It turns out that Nika Melia was going to attend the evening hearing and was preparing for a debate with me, although earlier he had boycotted the court,” Georgia’s ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili wrote on social media.

According to Saakashvili, such a scenario would have been difficult to comprehend.

“Today, two court hearings were scheduled for me. After the morning session, I had to wait several hours before the next case was to be considered. Therefore, I made my statement in the morning and returned to prison.

Now it turns out that Nika Melia was going to attend the evening hearing and was preparing for a debate with me, although earlier he had boycotted the court. In that case, it is probably better that I did not stay today.

It would be very difficult to perceive a verbal confrontation between prisoners of the system inside a glass enclosure, like gladiators in an arena in Rome. This would not only give the regime great satisfaction but would also be unprecedented in the history of political prisoners.

So we avoided that situation, and hopefully we will not find ourselves in such a ridiculous position in the future. There is strength in unity,” Saakashvili wrote.