Georgians told what awaits Saakashvili after deportation to his homeland
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili faces arrest if extradited from Kyiv to Tbilisi, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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This was stated by the chairman of the parliament of the republic, Irakli Kobakhidze, who is on a visit to the United States, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“As for the extradition of Mikheil Saakashvili, he is awaiting arrest in Georgia. We have little political support for him. From a political point of view, we are not interested in where Saakashvili will be - in Georgia or Ukraine. In our country, a trial took place against him, there is a court decision that involves the arrest of Saakashvili upon his appearance on the territory of Georgia,” Kobakhidze said, speaking at Johns Hopkins University.
Let us remember that on January 5, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced Saakashvili in absentia to three years in prison for malicious abuse of power as President of Georgia.
In turn, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, in an interview with TSN published today, stated that the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office has not changed its demand for the extradition of Saakashvili, and Kyiv is fulfilling its international obligations.
At the same time, Lutsenko noted that the possible extradition of Saakashvili to Georgia would be “the most difficult decision” for him, because it would mean his “one hundred percent imprisonment.”
The Prosecutor General also indicated that there are options for Saakashvili’s voluntary return to any of the countries he has chosen, for example, to the Netherlands, where his family lives, or “voluntary or forced deportation to one of the countries he has chosen, or to the country from which he illegally crossed the Ukrainian border.” border - that is, Poland."
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