Mikhail Saakashvili illegally entered the country in 2021
The former president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, who led the so -called “Rose Revolution” in 2003, was sentenced to a court in Tbilisi for more than four and a half years to illegally enter the country on the return from exile in 2021.
The information was released on Monday (17) by the Russian Tass agency, which reported that the protests were recorded in court when the sentence was read and some of its supporters were withdrawn from the scene.
Saakashvili, president of Georgia for two terms – from 2004 to 2007 and from 2008 to 2013 – removed his Georgian citizenship after leaving his country in 2014 and acquired that of Ukraine, where he became governor of the Odessa region.
In the autumn of 2021, however, he returned illegally to Georgia and summoned his supporters to a march for Tbilisi. At the time he was arrested and began a hunger strike, which quickly worsened his physical condition.
Since 2022, Saakashvili has been a prisoner in a clinic in the capital of the country and performed penalties for embezzlement and abuse of power. Last week he had already been sentenced to nine years of prison for embezzlement of state resources.
The local authorities have opened several investigations against Saakashvili, which denies irregularities and has defined their last “illegal” and “unjust” phrase. Human rights groups say that their prison has political motivation.
In addition, the former Georgian president, who opposes the Georgian Dream of the Sovereign Party, who favors the closest ties with Russia, denounced that he had been the victim of torture acts.
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Source: Terra
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