According to a Georgian Dream party leader, Beka Davituliani, representatives of the penitentiary facility must decide whether the ex-president is to be transferred to a civilian clinic.''Nobody, literally nobody, wants, and the state and the government in the first place, their inmate to die. The penitentiary system is responsible for inmates' lives and health,'' Davituliani told Rustavi 2.
Former President Mikheil Saakashvili, detained on 1 October, has been on a hunger strike for 48 days now.
