Mikhail Saakashvili was detained in Tbilisi on October 1. He came there from Ukraine. The politician said that he returned to his homeland before the elections, as “the issue of saving the country is being resolved.”
A criminal case was opened against Saakashvili on illegal crossing of the Georgian border. Prior to that, four more cases were initiated against him in Georgia: about the beating of an ex-deputy of the Georgian parliament and the murder of an employee of the United Bank of Georgia; abuse of office and the waste of public funds for personal needs.
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After the arrest, Saakashvili went on a hunger strike. On November 4, the politician’s mother turned to Zelensky with a request to organize the transfer of Saakashvili to Ukraine for treatment. By that time, Saaakashvili had been on a hunger strike for 35 days, and, according to her, “anything could happen to him.”
On November 8, a girl politician, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yelizaveta Yasko appealed to the Georgian authorities with an appeal to immediately transfer Saakashvili to a private clinic because of his critical condition. As a result, the politician was transferred to a hospital, on November 18 he was taken to intensive care, and two days later he was transferred to a military hospital.
On November 29, Saakashvili attended a court hearing on abuse of power.
Saakashvili served as President of Georgia for two consecutive terms in 2004-2013. After losing another election in 2013, he left the country. In 2015, he was deprived of his Georgian citizenship, in the same year Saakashvili received a Ukrainian passport by decree of the then President of the country, Petro Poroshenko. In 2017, due to the conflict with Poroshenko, Saakashvili lost his citizenship and left Ukraine. Two years later, after the victory of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the presidential elections, Saakashvili returned to Ukraine and headed the executive committee of the National Reform Council.
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