“I am declaring an indefinite hunger strike from today, this will be a reaction to how the regime treats me and our people,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

In December, lawyer Nika Gvaramia, representing the interests of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, said that his client had been transferred from the military hospital in Gori to a prison in the city of Rustavi.

Earlier, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on the Georgian authorities not to return Mikhail Saakashvili, who has Ukrainian citizenship, back to prison from a military hospital.