Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili has been “poisoned” by way of metals in jail, his prison workforce has claimed.
The nation’s major opposition birthday party says Saakashvili must be launched as a result of his “condition may lead to coma and death”.
The United National Movement (UNM) also known as for the previous president to obtain remedy at a high-level sanatorium out of the country, within the United States or the European Union.
Saakashvili — the previous UNM chief who served as president from 2004 to 2013 — is these days serving a six-year jail sentence.
He fled the rustic for Ukraine after the tip of his 2nd time period in place of work and used to be later convicted in absentia of abuse of energy.
The 54-year-old used to be arrested in October 2021 after returning to Georgia earlier than the national municipal elections. He has denounced the fees as political.
Last week, the UNM mentioned Saakashvili used to be typically wholesome on the time of his arrest however had since suffered weight reduction and muscle plains.
The birthday party mentioned a toxicological exam confirmed his frame contained excessive ranges of barium, bismuth, and mercury. It additionally mentioned he perhaps suffered a spinal harm in jail and evolved a serious type of tense rigidity dysfunction.
Saakashvili two times went on starvation strike to protest towards his imprisonment
Georgian government have confident that Mikheil Saakashvili is receiving all important care.
Irakli Kobakhidze, chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream birthday party, mentioned there aren’t any grounds for freeing Saakashvili.