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Saakashvili needed medical attention after falling at prison hospital – lawyer
Technical repeat
TBILISI. Nov 18 (Interfax) – Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili fell while leaving a room after meeting with his lawyer Beka Basilaya in prison and required medical attention, Basilaya said.
"When Mikheil Saakashvili was leaving today’s meeting with lawyers, he fell, and medical staff took him away on stretchers," Basilaya told journalists.
Another lawyer, Nika Gvaramiya, is currently at the prison hospital and will give more details later, Basilaya 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 and put in jail in the city of Rustavi soon afterwards, 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 and family.
Saakashvili has been convicted in Georgia in absentia in several criminal cases and is being treated as a suspect in some others. The Georgian authorities warned repeatedly that he would be detained immediately after he crossed the border. He has described his detention as unlawful and the charges brought against him as falsified.
