Tue, 21-Oct-2025

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

Georgia

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