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Saakashvili refuses to meet with panel of doctors in prison – parliamentarian
TBILISI. Oct 28 (Interfax) – Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has refused to meet with a panel of doctors at the prison in Rustavi, parliamentarian Rostom Chkheidze told journalists after visiting Saakashvili on Thursday.
"When we were talking in the visitors’ room, a prison administration officer came in to inform Saakashvili that a panel of doctors had arrived and wanted to meet with and examine him. Saakashvili refused to meet with the doctors in my presence," Chkheidze said.
Saakashvili seemed vivacious, he said.
"Saakashvili is very hopeful about the outcome of the second round of the local elections to take place on Saturday, October 30," Chkheidze said.
Saakashvili on Wednesday refused to accept any medical assistance while on hunger strike.
Saakashvili, former Georgian president and currently a citizen of Ukraine, secretly arrived in Georgia from Ukraine on September 29. He was detained in Tbilisi on October 1 and is currently being held in a Rustavi prison.
Georgia earlier declared Saakashvili wanted as a person convicted in absentia in several criminal cases and treated as a suspect in some others. The Georgian authorities warned repeatedly that he would be detained immediately after he crossed the border. Saakashvili has described his detention as unlawful and the charges brought against him as falsified.
