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Mikheil Saakashvili: "If the U.S. doesn’t come to my defense it would be a terrible signal to all pro-Western leaders and populations in the region"

Georgia’s imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili

19 November 2021 12:33 (UTC +04:00)

"If the U.S. doesn’t come to my defense it would be a terrible signal to all pro-Western leaders and populations in the region," according to scrawled, handwritten responses of Georgia’s imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili to questions through his lawyers Wednesday, APA reports citing Bloomberg.

Saakashvili said he returned ahead of local elections in October because a combination of “Russian games” and government statements had convinced him the nation of 4 million was abandoning its goal of joining the European Union and NATO.

Mikheil Saakashvili is 49 days into a hunger strike in which he drinks but does not eat. A doctor told reporters outside the hospital Thursday the 53-year-old temporarily lost consciousness during the day but was now stable.