Beka Basilaia, a lawyer of the jailed ex-president, said Mikheil Saakashvili should be transferred to the Tbilisi City Court on November 10 since the court requested his trial be held at the court building.

According to Basilaia, if Saakashvili’s trial is not held in the court hall, it means that the government is scared. The Ministry of Justice and Penitentiary Service are now obliged to satisfy the request.

“If the trial of Mikheil Saakashvili is not held in the courtroom tomorrow, it will indicate that the government is scared and is trying to suppress the great protest among the Georgian people with the help of criminals. There is no legal basis neither for conducting tomorrow’s trial in court nor for transferring Mikheil Saakashvili amid the circumstance that Mikheil Saakashvili’s health worsens every day, and it could be his last chance to appear before the court,” Basilaia claimed.

The lawyer claimed his defendant would gather strength to show up for the hearing.

The November 10 trial will have to do with the November 7 rally dispersal, crackdown of Imedi TV and exceed of authorities over seizure of Mtatsminda Park.

Law enforcers arrested Mikheil Saakashvili in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on October 1. The ex-president is charged with several criminal offences. In 2018, he was sentenced to six years in prison in absentia for abuse of power.