Saakashvili returned from hospital to prison

Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been returned to prison. The Georgian Penitentiary Service explained his transfer by the improvement in the convicted politician's condition.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on May 12, 2022, Mikheil Saakashvili was transferred from the Rustavi prison to the Vivamed clinic in Tbilisi for examination. On March 12, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced Mikheil Saakashvili to nine years in prison, finding him guilty of embezzlement of public funds. This charge was brought against Saakashvili back in 2014. At the hearing, the Penitentiary Service presented a certificate stating that Saakashvili did not wish to participate in the proceedings remotely and requested that the hearing be postponed until he recovered. Saakashvili faced three to five years in prison for illegally crossing the border. He refused to participate in the court hearing. The court sentenced him to 4.5 years in prison.

Georgia's third president, Saakashvili, has been transferred again from the Vivamed clinic to Prison No. 12, the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia reported.

"Since the health condition of the convicted Mikheil Saakashvili is satisfactory and he no longer requires inpatient treatment, he was discharged from the civilian sector clinic and returned to Penitentiary Institution No. 12, where he will continue to serve his sentence on a general basis," Novosti Georgia quotes the Penitentiary Service as saying.

Saakashvili was in the clinic serving the Georgian penitentiary system for three and a half years, from May 12, 2022.

On November 8, it became known that the Prosecutor General's Office had launched a criminal prosecution against Mikheil Saakashvili, Giorgi Vashadze, Nika Gvaramia, Nika Melia, Zurab Japaridze, Elene Khoshtaria, Mamuka Khazaradze, and Badri Japaridze on charges of crimes against the state.