The largest opposition party in Georgia, the United National Movement, initiated the collection of signatures for the release of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili from prison.
“The time has come for the President of Georgia to make a historic decision to release Mikheil Saakashvili from political imprisonment,” said Sopho Japaridze, a spokesman for the ex-president.
Mikheil Saakashvili has been under observation at the Vivamedi clinic for more than a year and a half. He returned to Georgia from Ukraine at the end of September 2021 and was arrested, having been sentenced in absentia to imprisonment in two criminal cases. After his arrest, Saakashvili went on hunger strike three times.
