Mikheil Saakashvili asks Bill Browder to draft a new Magnitsky List in an open letter
By Liza Mchedlidze
Monday, January 9, 2023
The ex-president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, addressed the famous British financier and critic of the Putin regime, the author of the Magnitsky Act, Bill Browder with an open letter, asking him to draft a new 'Magnitsky List' before the lethal outcome.
Saakashvili's letter to Browder was published on the Facebook page of the third president of Georgia.
"To Bill Browder
CEO of Heritage foundation
from Mikheil Saakashvili
Dear Bill,
Thank you for your very famous tweet.
I am being killed in a prison exactly the same way as Magnitsky, but much more explicitly and publicly. My request is to help local Georgian groups with drafting a new Magnitsky list in advance not waiting for lethal outcome. All the names are quite public, and what whites them is their sense of impurity, connected to their feeling on Putin's invincibility. But you and I know that Putin's days are counted, and my greatest hope is to live till his demise. Meanwhile, my health is getting worse with each day and local oligarchic crappies are just making fun of my deteriorating condition.
Please help us with all your intellectual ability, fighting spirit and wide contacts," the letter reads.
Saakashvili is thanking Bill Browder for the supportive message he published towards him on Twitter on December 22,2022, demanding the urgent medical evacuation of the ex-president to Europe, assessing the whole situation as 'monstrous'. He also added that if Saakashvili is not transferred to Europe, 'this can only be called murder'.
"This is monstrous. The former president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili is a political prisoner in Georgia, dying in front of our eyes. He is the responsibility of the government of Georgia. He needs an urgent medical evacuation to Europe. If not, this can only be called murder," Browder wrote.
