Activist Temur Katamadze has ended his hunger strike on the 48th day, – Zurab Chkhaidze, the clinical director of the Vivamedi clinic, announced.
“Gafar Yilmaz [Temur Katamadze] was admitted to our clinic yesterday evening. He underwent the necessary tests and was placed in the therapeutic ward. We explained to him the expected complications and I have good information that he fully understood what a 48-day hunger strike would entail, and he ended that hunger strike,” Chkhaidze noted.
Temur Katamadze was initially detained by the police in Batumi on administrative charges, but after his release from prison, he was arrested again. At the second arrest, the police accused him of not having the right to live in Georgia.
Katamadze is a descendant of Georgian Muslims who were deported from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. In a letter to Batumelebi, he stated that he has lived in Georgia since 2012 but, despite multiple attempts, has been unable to obtain Georgian citizenship.
