Tbilisi (Georgia)
Fifty kilograms in sixteen months: this is the weight that former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, 55, has lost since his arrest on October 1, 2021. The one meter ninety-five giant has gone from 115 to 65kg.
During a hearing earlier this month before a court in Tbilisi, which he was only able to attend by videoconference after his doctors forbade him to be taken to court, the fiery leader of the "revolution of roses” pro-Western 2003 flaunted his now bony body.
The photo went around the world.
His camp pleads, like him, for his transfer abroad to be treated there.
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His weight loss threatens his life.
Foreign doctors whom we have managed to bring here say that there are heavy metals in his blood, which leads us to believe that Mikhail was poisoned," says
his mother, Giuli Alasania, who goes to the hospital every day. clinic to bring him some food.
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He…
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