The Tbilisi Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal filed by the lawyers of the former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili demanding his release or suspension of punishment due to his health condition.
"The Appeals Chamber considered that the application had no legal basis to grant relief," the communication said.
In the coming days the Georgian authorities will meet with the European ambassadors to discuss the situation around Saakashvili. This was stated by Archil Talakvadze, Deputy Speaker of Parliament. "Unfortunately, I do not remember any demarche during Saakashvili’s presidency, when prisoners were actually tortured, when they died due to inhuman treatment," he said.
On the eve the Minister of Justice of Georgia received an official demarche from the European Union in connection with the state of health of the ex-president. He has lost a lot of weight and suffers from a number of diseases, doctors noted.
