‘I Was Poisoned by Russian Agents,’ Georgia’s Ex-president Saakashvili Says
Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been detained by authorities in Tbilisi for over a year, suffering dramatic weight loss and severe ill health, told POLITICO he believed he was “poisoned by Russian agents.”
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“Since then, I am in poor health,” the ex-leader added, saying he has lost half his body weight since he was arrested in October 2021 and now weighs 60 kilograms, down from 120 kg. “At the facility I am in, the main treatment decisions are taken by security services, not by doctors — they appoint all the medical staff,” Saakashvili wrote in answers transmitted to POLITICO by his American lawyer, Massimo D’Angelo.
According to D’Angelo, small doses of poison were probably mixed into Saakashvili’s food and water — which the lawyer says is consistent with the Kremlin’s slow, agonizing methods when it comes to eliminating political prisoners.
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"‘I Was Poisoned by Russian Agents,’ Georgia’s Ex-president Saakashvili Says," by Nicolas Camut was published in Politico on March 23, 2023.