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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili agreed on Friday to finish a 50-day starvation strike as soon as authorities transferred him to a navy hospital, his legal professionals mentioned.
Lawyer Dito Sadzaglishvili instructed Reuters the previous chief can be moved from a jail hospital within the capital Tbilisi to the navy hospital within the city of Gori on Friday evening.
The switch, proposed by Georgia's Justice Ministry earlier within the day, appeared to mark a breakthrough in a protracted stand-off that had prompted america and others to boost considerations for his well being.
The 53-year-old was arrested on Oct. 1 after coming back from exile to rally the opposition on the eve of native elections. He faces six years in jail after being convicted in absentia in 2018 of abusing his workplace throughout his 2004-2013 presidency, expenses he rejects as politically motivated.
One other of his legal professionals, Nika Gvaramia, was quoted by the Sputnik Georgia information service as asking Saakashvili's supporters to go away the neighborhood of the jail hospital in order that nothing would intrude with the switch.
Georgia's human rights commissioner mentioned on Wednesday that Saakashvili was being mistreated by different inmates within the jail hospital and wanted to be moved to intensive care to keep away from the danger of coronary heart failure, inside bleeding and coma after greater than a month and a half on starvation strike.
Till Friday, he had insisted on being transferred to a civilian hospital.
Saakashvili took energy through a peaceable "Rose Revolution" in 2003 and led the nation as president from 2004 to 2013, throughout which period he applied pro-Western reforms however led the nation right into a disastrous warfare with Russia.
His case has drawn 1000’s of his supporters onto the streets in latest weeks and raised political tensions within the nation of three.7 million individuals.
Georgia's president has mentioned Saakashvili wouldn’t be pardoned. The US on Thursday urged Georgia to deal with him "pretty and with dignity" and it was intently following his state of affairs.
(REUTERS)
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