MOSCOW (AP) — A health care provider for former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says his situation is deteriorating 10 days right into a starvation strike that he began after being arrested when he returned to the nation.
Saakashvili, 53, left Georgia in 2014 and have become a Ukrainian citizen. He faces a number of costs in Georgia and earlier was sentenced in absentia to as much as six years in jail. He returned to Georgia with the goal of making an attempt to provoke opposition to the ruling occasion forward of nationwide municipal elections and was arrested on Oct. 1.
His physician, Dr. Nikoloz Kipshidze, instructed Mtavari Arkhi TV on Sunday that “his situation has worsened, he has issue strolling, it’s tough for him to talk.” Kipshidze mentioned he would search Saakashvili’s switch to a hospital on Monday.
The United Nationwide Motion occasion that was based by Saakashvili positioned a distant second to the ruling Georgian Dream occasion within the election that was held two days after Saakashvili’s arrest, though mayoral races within the nation’s six largest cities might be determined in a second spherical of voting.