“Keeping Mikheil Saakashvili in prison will be a death sentence for the convict,” said the former president’s attorney Shalva Khachapuridze.
The lawyer claimed that Saakashvili’s case will be heard by Judge Giorgi Arevadze, who earlier ruled the ex-president guilty.
“If Saakashvili’s sentence is not postponed or his release is not possible, his life is certainly in danger. Consider it a death sentence for him,” Khachapuridze said.
The lawyer added that the judge’s independence would heavily influence the decision, even though the case is loaded with political implications.
On December 1, Mikheil Saakashvili’s attorneys petitioned the court to postpone the former president’s sentence. The ex-president is being treated at Tbilisi’s Vivamedi hospital.
