TBILISI, Mar 28 Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili continues to lose weight, now the ex-president of Georgia weighs 58 kilograms, his mother Giuli Alasania said.
«Saakashvili already weighs 58 kilograms. He is poisoned, so he cannot take food and the required amount of calories. The dynamics of weight loss continues,» Alasania told reporters.
At the end of February, Giorgi Grigolia, a doctor of the consultation at the Office of the Ombudsman of Georgia, stated that if the politician's weight drops to 55 kilograms, then irreversible processes will begin, he will be bedridden. At that time, Saakashvili weighed 64 kilograms.
Saakashvili was detained in Georgia on October 1, 2021, he is being investigated in several criminal cases. The politician was convicted in absentia in the cases of the murder of banker Sandro Girgvliani and the beating of deputy Valery Gelashvili. In the first case, Saakashvili was sentenced to three years in prison, in the second — to six. In addition, he is a defendant in cases of the dispersal of an opposition rally on November 7, 2007, the pogrom of the Imedi television company and the embezzlement of funds from the state budget — they are still being considered by the courts. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that Saakashvili will remain in prison for a long time, he will serve the entire term.