Center 'Empathy' publishes conclusion on Mikheil Saakashvili's health condition, lawyers demand transfer abroad
By Liza Mchedlidze
Friday, December 2, 2022
The Center 'Empathy' has published the conclusion of the study regarding the health condition of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili. Based on the statement, Saakashvili has more than 20 diagnoses or symptoms - about 10 of them make imprisonment incompatible.
According to the conclusion, Mikheil Saakashvili's current state of health is assessed as serious and incompatible with imprisonment - separate diagnoses, both separately and together, will lead to irreversible damage to Saakashvili's health, resulting in shortening of life expectancy and even death, if he is not given the opportunity to receive adequate diagnosis and treatment.
According to the statement, Mikheil Saakashvili currently has symptoms and diagnoses in terms of neuro-psychic, gastro-enterological, locomotor system and vision. According to their reports, Saakashvili has a fever of unknown etiology, anorexia, rapid weight loss, pain in muscles, joints, and muscle spasms, "which may be the results of an unknown infectious process and/or possible intoxication."
The lawyer of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, Shalva Khachapuridze, appealed to the court to fully release Saakashvili from his sentence or postpone it.
"In the case, we have presented other evidence with which we will prove to the court that adequate treatment cannot and will not be provided to Saakashvili in Georgia.
Accordingly, we submit a motion for full release from his sentence, and as an alternative, a postponement of the imposed sentence.
The other side will have almost no argument - you will see it in court proceedings. This will be a truly historic case, it will make a big change in Georgian justice and, in general, in the case of protecting the human rights of prisoners," says the lawyer.
