The President of the Republic, who twice defied Russia, faces death in prison and dreams of a fresh meal of eggs and cheese!

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, whose health deteriorated due to two hunger strikes in prison, risks death if he does not receive the necessary care, his doctors warned Friday.

Saakashvili, 54, refused to receive food for 50 days and then for another 20 days, denouncing his imprisonment after being convicted of abusing power in Georgia. Today, Friday, a group of independent doctors reported that Saakashvili was examined in prison, that the latter suffers especially from disorders, severe nervous stress and loss of appetite.

Doctors warned that the ex-president's failure to urgently transfer to the hospital to spare him from exposure to "psychological stress factors" would push him to face the risk of developing neurological complications that could cause an imbalance in the functions of his organs and lead to a "fatal end."

The Georgian authorities have so far ignored the concerns expressed by doctors and supporters of the pro-Western ex-president.

In this context, the head of the ruling Georgian party, Irakli Kobakhidze, declared this week that Saakashvili "is not satisfied with the decline in his standard of living since he was imprisoned," adding, "All that is required is to eat eggs and fresh cheese so that everything will be fine."

Saakashvili, who ruled Georgia between 2004 and 2013, was arrested and imprisoned in October 2021 upon his return to his country in the Caucasus after several years of exile, and his arrest exacerbated a political crisis in Georgia that erupted after the 2020 legislative elections that the ruling party narrowly won. The opposition considered it fake.

During the rule of "Saakashvili", Georgia fought a war with Russia in 2008 after it entered the separatist region of South Ossetia. After that, "Saakashvili" moved to political work in Ukraine in 2015 during the rule of Petro Poroshenko, who granted him Ukrainian citizenship and appointed him governor of Odessa thanks to his support for the anti-"Mayan Revolution". Russian influence in Ukraine in 2013.

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