Mikheil Saakashvili Responds to Court's Decision, Calls it 'Death Sentence'
By Liza Mchedlidze
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Mikheil Saakashvili responded to the court's decision denying him of postponement or release of the sentence with a letter from the "Vivamed" clinic, saying that he has received a 'death sentence' and will remain in prison with the fatal diseases and that no one in the world except Russia recognizes the court's decision.
"As expected, the Russian ambassadors at first delayed my process in the hope that I would not make it to the end, but now such a storm has arisen from all over the world that they hastened it. Not any serious cabinet in the world and not any serious media doubts anymore that they are killing me on Putin's orders, and now they have decided that the game is pointless, they can no longer deceive the West, and on the contrary, they are under enormous pressure. They decided to please Putin directly and without any hiding," Saakashvili said.
According to him, the court believed the experts of the government, who did not even bother to see him, and not the international Nobelist experts.
"The Georgian court hearing turned out to be an absolute joke. On the other hand, our evidence was based on thorough research conducted by leading doctors in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Georgia. Almost all of them visited me, some of them several times. The government experts didn't even bother to see me at least once, but the court believed them, not the international team, which included a Nobel laureate, who said that if I stay in prison, I will die.
Therefore, now I have, in fact, received a death sentence and will remain in prison with all the lethal diseases, by a court decision that no one in the world, except Russia, recognizes. It is no coincidence that Lavrov has praised the Georgian government several times over the past week and also attacked me. Putin promised that he would "hang me with eggs", and it seems that he is doing it through his puppet Russian oligarch Ivanishvili," said Saakashvili.
The former president of Georgia thanked everyone who supported him and said that now is not the time to be 'heartbroken' but to be 'angry'.
"Thank you very much to everyone who came to the rallies these months, who came to the court, who spent ten nights at the hospital. Now is not the time to be heartbroken, but to be angry. We are winning this war and it will definitely help Georgia as well," Saakashvili wrote.
