“I was dragged from the car and along the ground. I was hit several times in the neck and also dragged by hair at which point I put up resistance,” Mikheil Saakashvili said in his letter from Gldani prison hospital read out at a 2 am briefing by Mtavari TV CEO Nika Gvaramia.
Georgia’s Ombudsperson Nino Lomjaria confirmed this, saying Saakashvili had initially been told he was being taken to a civilian hospital.
Saakashvili, who is now on 39th day of hunger strike, also said he physically resisted an attempt to inject an unknown substance without his permission.
In plethora of footages from around the Gldani prison facility inmates and convicts were heard shouting swearwords and insults at Saakashvili for many hours.
The Gldani prison – one of the biggest penitentiary facilities in Georgia – houses convicts many of whom view Saakashvili as responsible for crackdown on crime and criminal networks after the Rose Revolution – something with which both Saakashvili and his former team take pride.
Up to 40,000 Georgians marched in downtown Tbilisi on Monday evening to condemn Saakashvili’s transfer to the Gldani prison, which they view as proof of his political prosecution and a vendetta by Bidzina Ivanishvili, oligarch behind the Georgian Dream government.
The council of doctors and the Public Defender Nino Lomjaria said the Gldani prison medical facility were unfit to receive Mikheil Saakashvili both in the context of its equipment as well as security.
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