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Georgia’s jailed opposition leader and ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, is in a critical condition and lacks proper medical care, doctors said Wednesday, France 24 reported.
Saakashvili, who has been refusing food for 48 days to protest his imprisonment on October 1, shortly after his return from exile in Ukraine.
Georgia’s government has refused to move him from prison hospital to a civilian clinic, against the advice of doctors who have warned of the risk to Saakashvili’s life.
On Wednesday, a council of medics set up by ombudsperson Nino Lomjaria said after having examined Saakashvili that his “current status is assessed as critical” and that he faced a risk of fatal complications in the “immediate future”.
