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Saakashvili accuses Georgian secret services of spreading rumors about sending him back to prison
TBILISI. Dec 6 (Interfax) – Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has dismissed as rumors and blackmail information about transferring him from the military hospital in Gori where he is undergoing treatment to the prison in Rustavi.
"The special services spreading such rumors is blackmail against me and my supporters aimed at reducing our activity and letting the current regime gain time. Such rumors are being spread against the backdrop of categorical protest against my return to the Rustavi prison on the part of doctors," Saakashvili said on social media on Monday.
United National Movement Chairman Nikanor Melia being summoned to the State Security Service of Georgia on Monday was also aimed at "intimidating the opposition," he said.
"I want to tell [billionaire and former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina] Ivanishvili that I have by now experienced torture and inhumane treatment, and nothing can surprise me. In the coming days, the struggle will intensify and will go on until your defeat," Saakashvili said.
Saakashvili earlier accused the Georgian authorities of corruption, arguing that Ivanishvili rules the country. "Ivanishvili has gained a profit of $5 billion in Georgia over the past years. He and his clan are ruling the country," he said.
Saakashvili, former Georgian president and currently a citizen of Ukraine, secretly arrived in Georgia on September 29 and was detained in Tbilisi on October 1. He was placed in jail in the city of Rustavi soon afterward, where he declared a hunger strike. On November 8, he was transferred to the prison infirmary in Tbilisi’s Gldani district without the consent of his lawyers or family. On November 20, Saakashvili was transferred to a military hospital in Gori.
Saakashvili has been convicted in Georgia in absentia in several criminal cases and is being treated as a suspect in some others. He has described his detention as unlawful and the charges brought against him as falsified.
