Ready to give his life for Georgia – Saakashvili’s new appeal from prison

Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who continues to starve, said that he was ready to help the country at the cost of his own life.

The politician said this in a written interview to the Mtavari Atkhi TV channel.

“Today the Georgian society does not see me visually and does not hear my voice in live. And if I cannot help the country with my life, maybe my death will illuminate its path. I say this without any pathos.”– Saakashvili answered the question of why he went on a hunger strike and whether he thought that it could end badly.

Note that he has been on hunger strike for 14 days. According to the ex-president’s doctor and his associates, the prisoner’s health condition has deteriorated significantly.

In addition, in an interview, Saakashvili said that he returned to his homeland because of an irresistible and boundless melancholy.

“Every night I dreamed about different places in Georgia”– he added.

The ex-president also said that he wanted to return home after he saw in Georgia “demography, geopolitics and the collapse of domestic institutions”.

Saakashvili writes that this was not his first attempt to come to Georgia.

“It didn’t work out quite as I had planned. Something was done in such a way that the first attempt almost ended tragically. In general, it was not a business class flight, nor what is now being described in the media.”, – he clarified.

Saakashvili also said that during four days of secret stay in Georgia, he visited Batumi, Kutaisi, Poti, Lanchkhuti, and also managed to eat khachapuri. In Tbilisi, he ordered khinkali, but did not manage to finish them before the arrest.

What is known about the detention

• Ex-President of Georgia flew to the country 8 years after he left her. He intended to support his party in the elections. Upon his arrival, information appeared that they were preparing to arrest him.
• Saakashvili still detained in Georgia… The law enforcement agencies had preliminary information about his transfer from Ukraine to Georgia, and this process took place under full control.
• Subsequently, the media began to publish first shots of the arrest the former president of Georgia. According to the general director of the Mtavari Archi TV company Nika Gvaramia, Saakashvili was detained in Tbilisi.
• After the arrest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine demanded an explanation from the Georgian Embassy on the grounds and circumstances of the detention of a citizen of Ukraine Mikheil Saakashvili.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised that Ukraine will do his best for the release of the head of the Executive Committee of Reforms Mikheil Saakashvili.
• Prime Minister of Georgia called the return condition Mikheil Saakashvili to Ukraine.