Mikheil Saakashvili Was Discharged From The Hospital Where He Had Been Staying For More Than Three Years
- 12.11.2025, 20:33
Georgia's ex-president was returned to prison.
Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, detained in the fall of 2021, has been discharged from the hospital and returned to Penitentiary Institution No. 12, where he will continue serving his sentence. This is reported by "Ekho Kavkaza" radio.
"Since Mikhail Saakashvili's condition has been recognized satisfactory and he no longer needs hospital treatment, the former president has been discharged from the civil sector clinic and returned to Penitentiary Institution No. 12, where he will continue serving his sentence as usual," "Ekho Kavkaza" quotes a statement by the Special Penitentiary Service.
The statement also notes that, according to Georgian law, the return of a patient from a civilian medical institution to a penitentiary one is carried out by the decision of the attending physician, based on the state of his health.
We recall that Mikhail Saakashvili was detained in Tbilisi in October 2021 shortly after his return to Georgia, where he is charged in several criminal cases. He was sentenced to six years in absentia on two of them before his return.
He calls himself "Putin's prisoner" and considers all the charges to be politically motivated.
Saakashvili went on hunger strike twice during his imprisonment and changed several medical institutions. In May 2022, he was transferred to the Vivamedi clinic on the outskirts of Tbilisi and has been undergoing treatment there ever since.
Saakashvili's relatives and supporters have sounded the alarm about his condition, believing that the only way to save his life is treatment abroad. Authorities said he was deliberately damaging his health to secure his release from prison and accused his supporters of speculating and politicizing the issue.
Saakashvili's lawyers petitioned the court to release him or postpone his criminal sentence due to his severe diagnoses, but the judge, after two months of court hearings, refused to grant the defense's petition, leaving the former president in detention in a Tbilisi clinic.