Georgia's former president and opposition chief Mikheil Saakashvili on Monday introduced that he's beginning a brand new starvation strike to protest in opposition to his jail circumstances.
"I'm beginning a starvation strike," Saakashvili informed a court docket in Tbilisi, asking to obtain "ample medical care" in jail. The previous chief of the Caucasus nation has been jailed since October following a conviction for abuse of energy, which he describes as political.
Saakashvili, 54, carried out a 50-day starvation strike following his arrest on October 1 after he returned to the nation. He stopped it after growing a neurological situation known as Wernicke's encephalopathy, which is brought on by vitamin B deficiency and may end up in confusion, lack of ability to coordinate voluntary motion and eye abnormalities.
He returned to jail from a navy hospital on 30 December which his attorneys denounced as untimely, stating that he was "now not communicative and couldn't transfer on his personal."
An impartial board of docs stated then that the previous president was nonetheless affected by extreme neurological issues, which they stated have been the results of ill-treatment in detention.
Saakashvili stated his new starvation strike was to acquire neurological therapy introduced his new starvation strike in addition to to denounce the authorities' choice to forestall his private physician from visiting him in jail.
President from 2004 to 2013, Saakashvili left the nation for Ukraine after his second time period ended and was later convicted in absentia of abuse of energy and sentenced to 6 years in jail.
Saakashvili's arrest exacerbated a political disaster following the 2020 parliamentary elections, which the ruling Georgian Dream social gathering narrowly gained and the opposition known as fraudulent.
Human rights activists accuse the Georgian authorities of utilizing legal proceedings to punish political opponents.
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