Former MP and leader of the People’s Party Koba Davitashvili died earlier today at a hospital aged 49.
Davitashvili, who had Bekhterev’s disease (ankylosing spondylitis), was taken to hospital two weeks ago in a critical condition.
Doctors said that Davitashvili had sepsis, septic shock, multiple organ failure and acute renal failure which caused his death.
Davitashvili was kidnapped and severely beaten during the opposition rally in 2007 under the United National Movement government.
He stated that the injuries received that time caused Bekhterev's disease which is a chronic rheumatic inflammation.
The inflammation primarily affects the spine and the sacroiliac joints.
Davitashvili was diagnosed with the disease back in 2017 and he was unable to walk alone as of last year.
He was MP for four times, in the parliaments of 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2012.