Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Georgia’s jailed ex-leader victim of ‘torture’: lawyer

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After conducting an extended hunger strike, Georgia’s detained former president Mikheil Saakashvili was subjected to “torture” by being denied sufficient medical treatment, his attorneys told a court hearing Wednesday.   The pro-Western opposition leader, who led the small Caucasus nation from 2004 to 2013, was imprisoned in October, just days after returning to the country … Read more

Georgia refuses to hospitalise hunger-striking ex-leader

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TBILISI – Georgia’s health minister on Thursday dismissed a recommendation by doctors to hospitalise jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili who has been on hunger strike for three weeks. President of the Caucasus country from 2004 to 2013, Saakashvili was arrested and imprisoned upon his return from exile in Ukraine on October 1. The 53-year-old … Read more