Former Georgian President Saakashvili fainted as he resisted being returned to prison
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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was taken from prison to a military hospital due to deterioration in his health after he declared a hunger strike, fainted after hearing about plans to return him back to the correctional facility, said the representative of the Ombudsman Anna Dzhaniashvili. TASS reports.
“Today I visited Mikhail Saakashvili. He told me that in the evening people came to him and said that they planned to take him out of the hospital, because of which he resisted, after which he does not remember anything. After he came to his senses, he was told that they were no longer going to transport him anywhere, ”said the representative of the Ombudsman of Georgia, speaking with the ex-head of state.
Earlier it became known that Mikhail Saakashvili, due to health problems, will miss the court session in the criminal case on illegal border crossing. The ex-president was charged with illegal border crossing at the end of October. He faces up to five years in prison. According to investigators, Saakashvili secretly arrived in Georgia on September 28 in a truck with dairy products, four more people helped him.
