Saakashvili in letter from detention: the charges are false
Mikheil Saakashvili, who is charged with several criminal offences, was arrested yesterday in Tbilisi.
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In a letter from a Rustavi detention facility ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili says all criminal accusations against him are false.
Addressing the Georgian population, Saakashvili says when he ‘left everything in Kyiv’ and arrived in Georgia he was aware that ‘most probably’ he would have been detained.
Mtavari Arkhi TV Director Nika Gvaramia has published Mikheil Saakashvili's letter on Facebook earlier today:
However, he claims all the criminal accusations that have been filed against him in the past, has not been recognized ‘by any other country but Russia’.
But I arrived anyway because I believe in my country and each of you!”, Mikheil Saakashvili addresses the Georgian population.
He further calls on everyone to go to polling stations, cast ballot and ‘protect the results of the referendum together’.
My freedom and most importantly the freedom of Georgia entirely depends on your activeness and willingness to fight in upcoming days”, ex-president says in the letter.
Saakashvili, who is charged with several criminal offences, was arrested yesterday in Tbilisi.
It still remains unclear how the former president crossed the border of Georgia as he posted two videos on October 1 from Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria who has visited Saakashvili in prison said that Saakashvili considers himself a political prisoner and starts a hunger strike.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has visited the recently detained ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in the prison of Rustavi and has announced that Saakashvili considers himself a political prisoner and starts a hunger strike. Lomjaria also stated that as a citizen of Ukraine Saakashvili requests a meeting with the Ukrainian consul.
Overall six criminal charges are filed against recently arrested Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili who has been convicted to six years of imprisonment in two cases while four other criminal cases are still being heard in Tbilisi City Court.
Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili has been detained today, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced. "Our law enforcement agencies had prior information about his (Saakashvili’s) movement from Ukraine to Georgia and the process was under the control” Garibashvili stated.
The ruling Georgian Dream party head Irakli Kobakhidze says that former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili served Russian interests in Georgia for nine years when he was in power and 'now he is where he belongs.’ "He handed over 20% of our country's territories to the Russian Federation. He came to Georgia to continue working with Russia", Kobakhidze said.
The Georgian Interior Ministry says the detention of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is charged with several criminal offences, was planned in advance. Based on the information released by the ministry earlier today, Georgian law enforcers, the State Security Service and the General Prosecutor’s Office carried out a joint operation to detain ex-president Saakashvili.
“The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine will support ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, since he is a citizen of Ukraine”, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Saakashvili returned to Georgia in the past few days, though the exact date of his arrival in the country remains unclear; his United National Movement party claims that he had arrived in late September.
Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has charged the owner of a flat where ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili was hiding before being recently detained. The Prosecutor's Office says that the owner of the flat, identified only as E.Ts., knew that Saakashvili was wanted by Georgian law enforcement officers for serious crimes. Nevertheless, E.Ts. handed over his apartment to Saakashvili for temporary residence and hiding.