Mikheil Saakashvili: Jailed Georgia ex-president 'getting weaker every day'
Ukraine's Public Defender Lyudmila Denisova has reported that Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili "is getting weaker every day".
Denisova visited Saakashvili in prison on Wednesday.
He has been on hunger strike since his arrest on 1 October and his vital signs are decreasing daily.
Saakashvili and his team have called upon the Georgian government to allow his transfer to a private clinic for treatment but they say he can only be taken to the prison hospital.
Georgia's Public Defender issued a statement on Monday saying that it is not equipped to provide emergency aid.
Denisova told reporters at the gates of the Rustavi penitentiary after visiting the former leader that "he refused a transfer to prison hospital number 18 because he thinks
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