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Georgia's Special Penitentiary Service has again barred former President Mikheil Saakashvili from attending his trial on embezzlement charges, saying it created a security risk.
Hundreds of supporters of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili have gathered in the capital to hold rallies demanding the politician's transfer to a civilian medical clinic as his health fails due to a hunger strike.
Hundreds of supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili held a rally in Tbilisi on November 11, demanding the transfer of the jailed former Georgian President to a civilian clinic following the release of a Georgian Special Penitentiary Service video showing his November 8 transfer to a prison infirmary.
Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has agreed to follow a call by the European Court of Human Rights to end his hunger strike if he is transferred to a civilian clinic from a prison hospital.
Police in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, have arrested dozens of protesters demanding the release of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Hundreds of Saakashvili supporters rallied outside government buildings and in front of a courtroom where his trial started on November 10.
Police in Tbilisi have arrested dozens of protesters demanding the release of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, as his trial in a case related to the dispersal of a 2007 opposition rally kicked off in Georgia's capital.
Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, says he has been abused by guards in the prison hospital he was transferred to on November 8 and fears for his life.
Georgia will require people to present a COVID-19 "green pass" from December 1 to enter many establishments, the government says.
Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, has been transferred to a prison hospital.
Hundreds of supporters of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili rallied on November 6 in the town of Rustavi, near the prison where he is being held. Saakashvili has been on a hunger strike since he was jailed on October 1, hours after returning to the country after an eight-year absence.
Hundreds of opposition supporters in Georgia have begun a demonstration to demand the release of jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is on a hunger strike.
Georgia’s opposition United National Movement (ENM) has launched “permanent” protests calling for the release of jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is a month into a hunger strike.
Opposition parties in Georgia protested outside the parliament in the capital, Tbilisi, on October 31, a day after mayoral runoffs in major cities. The ruling Georgian Dream party dominated the second round of voting according to preliminary results.
A leader of Georgia’s United National Movement (ENM) has pleaded with former President Mikheil Saakashvili to end his hunger strike, saying the opposition needs him alive to help mount a "peaceful revolution."
Giorgi Khizanishvili, 26, lost both arms in an accident when he was 9 years old. He says there are two things that could make his life better: state support to hire a personal assistant, and an end to the social stigma that continues to follow him.
Georgians are casting ballots on October 30 in a second round of local elections amid a political crisis in the Caucasus country with ex-President and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili on hunger strike in prison.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has ruled out moving jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike for almost a month, to a private clinic saying the transfer would cause "chaos" in the capital, Tbilisi.
A lawyer for former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says his client's state of health has worsened dramatically and intensive care physicians had to interfere overnight to perform resuscitation assistance as the politician enters his 25th day of a hunger strike.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike in prison for nearly three weeks, has consented to medical intervention while vowing to continue his protest.
Dozens of European lawmakers have called for the release of jailed Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, whose detention earlier this month deepened a protracted political crisis in the South Caucasus country.
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