According to the doctors treating Mikheil Saakashvili, among other things, mercury and arsenic have been found in the ex-president’s samples.
13:29•Updated 13:33
Ex-president of Georgia in prison Mikheil Saakashvili54, is suffering from heavy metal poisoning and is in danger of dying without proper treatment, his aides said Monday.
Saakashvili was hospitalized last year after being on a hunger strike for 50 days. The ex-president went on a hunger strike to protest his prison sentence, which he considered political.
According to the doctors treating Saakashvili, among other things, mercury and arsenic have been found in the ex-president’s samples.
A US toxicologist by David Smith according to Saakashvili, he can die without proper treatment “which is either prohibited or unavailable in Georgia”.
Saakashvili was imprisoned in October 2021, just days after returning to Georgia from exile. He was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison in 2018 for, among other things, abuse of power.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has described Saakashvili’s sentence as “political revenge”.
Saakashvili was the president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013.