Doctors did not allow Saakashvili to go to court
The ex-president was expected to appear in court
The trial of the ex-president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, was postponed because the doctors did not allow him to go to court released.
They are doctors of the clinic where Saakashvili has been receiving treatment since May.
They did not recommend that he be taken to the building of the Tbilisi City Court.
Mikhail Saakashvili last year, he said that he wanted to participate in the trial opened against him on the charge of illegal crossing of the border.
He was expected to appear in court.
Judge Nino Chakhnashvili, after receiving the doctors’ recommendation, decided to postpone the process for the next time.
Two separate earlier this year hunger 54-year-old Mikhail who held the action Saakashvili because he could not attend the court due to his health court meetings repeatedly cancellation done or postponed.
20He was the president of Georgia in 2013-04 Saakashvili which is the main opposition Unit National He is the founder of the Movement (VHM) Party.
VHM believes that the authorities are trying to hide the health situation of Saakashvili.
Judge Representatives of the “Georgian Dream” party do not agree with this and say that Saakashvili’s speech in public will only be of an advertising nature.
According to one of his lawyers, Shavla Khachapuridze, Saakashvili, who cannot move independently, decided to come to court with a special wheelchair.
He informed the defense team by phone that his condition is “serious”.
The ex-president’s lawyers, Shalva Khachapuridze and Valery Gelbakhiani, said in their statements to journalists that a deadly poison was found in Saakashvili’s blood.
Before that, they said that heavy metals, including mercury, were detected in his blood.
Lawyers they are sure that Saakashvili’s life conspiracy was done and the only way to save him way Europe transfer to one of the clinics.
VHM chairman Nika Melia said that if Saakashvili had come to the court, he would have confirmed the conclusions of several foreign experts who spoke about the deterioration of his health and the opinions of the people who visited him.
Nika Melia also said that her condition worsened sharply after being transferred from the prison to the “Vivamed” clinic.
He said that the authorities do not want this to be made public because it would contradict the “propaganda” spread in the media about the exaggeration of his condition by Saakashvili and his defenders.
Saakashvili 2018In January, he was found guilty of abuse of office in absentia and sentenced to 3 years in prison.
At the end of that year, he was again found guilty of abuse of office and sentenced to 6 years in absentia.
After he returns to the country to attend rallies ahead of local elections on October 1, 2021 imprisonment was done.
Saakashvili and his supporters of all his persecution political they say it is motivated.
in Georgia 2020held in parliament After the elections, the tension between “Georgian Dream” and the opposition increased.
According to doctors, severe post-traumatic stress and hunger The arrest of Saakashvili, who suffered from anorexia after his actions, deepened the crisis.