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Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy.
In many formerly democratic countries, the road to one-party rule has been long and winding. Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party seems to have decided to take the expressway.
On 6 November prosecutors charged eight of the country’s leading opposition figures, including a former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, with plotting to carry out a coup.
#Georgia #Democracy #Politics #EU #Europe #GeorgianDream #Saakashvili
Georgia's PM vows sweeping crackdown after a 'foiled coup'.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze vowed opposition arrests Sunday after police used force against opposition protesters who tried to enter the presidential palace in what he termed was a coup bid during a controversial election.
Ruling populist party Georgian Dream has vowed to ban all major opposition parties.
#Georgia #IrakliKobakhidze #GeorgianDream #Kobakhidze #Politics #Tbilisi #Saakashvili
Rewatching this speech given by Mikheil Saakashvili to UN General Assembly 11 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFG-_Dg10A
and I think it should be shared more across media. Something expected by #Saakashvili in 2013 as to happen in few years happening later but right now in 2025. And that is why so much of this his great speech is still so relevant.
Небезпека реваншу | Радіошорти #saakashvili #georgia #revenge #occupation
Про попередження українців з боку Міхеїла Саакашвілі з приводу небезпеки гібридної окупації країни андрофагами
#Georgia #Abcasia
Mikheil #Saakashvili (#ENM|EPP): "C'è il pericolo che il mondo democratico si allontani dalla Georgia nel suo insieme e rivolga le sue simpatie agli abcasi".
#Georgia #Abcasia
Mikheil #Saakashvili (#ENM|EPP): "Bloccando la legge russa sulla colonizzazione, gli abcasi hanno fatto il lavoro di tutta la Georgia. Tuttavia, c'è un pericolo nella vittoria degli abcasi: con la loro lotta conquisteranno la simpatia dell'Occidente. Questo ci obbliga semplicemente a condurre la nostra lotta verso la vittoria nel resto della Georgia".
✅ Хороші меседжі від Міхи, хоча не є його фанатом
👉 "Досить розганяти зраду! З корупцією йде реальна боротьба". Лист із тбіліської в'язниці https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2023/11/5/7427347/
#Georgia accuses Ukrainian official of plotting coup
Georgia on Monday accused a senior Ukrainian official of plotting to overthrow the Black Sea nation’s government by organising mass unrest, in the blatest episode of escalating tensions between the ex-Soviet countries.
#Kyiv said the claim was “untrue” and called it a Georgian attempt to “demonise” the war-torn country.
Tbilisi has been accused of cooperating with the #Kremlin even though Russian forces have deployed to separatist regions of #Abkhazia and South Ossetia since 2008, when #Moscow invaded the tiny #Caucasus country.
Georgian security services said the deputy chief of Ukraine’s military counterintelligence and Georgia’s former deputy interior minister, Giorgi Lortkipanidze, were plotting “destabilisation aimed at a violent overthrow of the government.”
It said Georgians fighting Russian forces in #Ukraine, including a bodyguard of Georgia’s jailed ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili, were among the conspirators being trained near Ukraine’s border with #Poland.
Ukraine has repeatedly called for Georgia to release #Saakashvili, who is now a Ukrainian national and a top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky.
Kyiv has said that the Georgian authorities are “killing” the ailing politician on Kremlin orders and has demanded his transfer to a clinic abroad.
Georgia in turn has condemned what it said was “an extreme form of escalation in diplomatic relations”.
Georgia’s security service said anti-government protests “are being planned for October and December, when the European Commission is set to publish its decision on Georgia’s #EU membership application.”
It said the plot “is being carried out with the coordination and funding from a foreign country.”
Ukraine denied the allegations.
“This information is untrue,” Kyiv’s foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on Facebook.
“The current Georgian authorities are once again trying to demonise Ukraine in order to solve their internal political issues,” it said, adding:
“The Ukrainian state has not interfered, is not interfering and does not plan to interfere in Georgia’s internal affairs.”
The EU recognised Georgia’s “European perspective” last year, but deferred its membership application while granting candidacy to fellow ex-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova.
That has led to mass anti-government protests in Tbilisi, where the government is facing accusations of backsliding on its commitments to democracy and undermining Georgia’s EU membership bid.
Earlier in September, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said “there is still quite a bit of work to be done” by #Tbilisi to be granted formal candidate status.
The #Georgian Security Service declared that #Saakashvili's entourage is preparing a coup d'état
Mass protests were planned for October and December, followed by the overthrow of the government. Just at that time, the European Commission is expected to announce whether the country will be granted the status of a candidate for EU membership or not.
According to the security services, the conspirators are counting on a negative decision by the European Commission, which would allow them to
Georgia’s EU dreams live or die with Mikheil Saakashvili.
In 2003, he led the Rose Revolution that overthrew a post-Soviet government run by oligarchs with the promise of a crackdown on corruption and an opening to the West. He even changed the constitution to enshrine “full integration” into both EU and NATO.
Now, ailing and imprisoned, Saakashvili holds Georgia’s future in his hands. His death could sink Georgia’s EU hopes for good.
https://www.politico.eu/article/georgia-european-union-membership-dreams-live-mikheil-saakashvili/
:twitter: Bill Browder: After #Zelensky weighed in on the torture of #MikheilSaakashvili, #MaiaSandu the president of #Moldova has publicly called for his release abroad to get medical attention. It seems high time for US, UK and EU leaders to put pressure on #Georgia to release #Saakashvili as well
https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1676336568272035840?s=19
Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili has appeared on TV, looking frail and emaciated, fuelling concerns over the detained politician’s treatment.
The 55-year-old was almost unrecognisable and looked like a ghost of his former self when he appeared in a video link for a court hearing.
The images prompted Ukraine – of which Saakashvili is a citizen – to summon the Georgian ambassador, asking him to help “save” Saakashvili.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky on Monday, June 3, asked the #Georgian ambassador to Kyiv to return home and try to "save" jailed ex-leader Mikheil Saakashvili -- a Ukrainian citizen -- after footage showed him looking emaciated.
Zelensky wants #Saakashvili -- who he made a Ukrainian citizen in 2019 -- to be transferred to a clinic in Ukraine or the West.
Read more here🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19044
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні! #georgia #StandWithUkraine
I met the guy a few times and fair to say he was a big lad, prop forward build. This is quite shocking. #Saakashvili https://masto.ai/@euractiv/110653947543873661
🇬🇪 Géorgie | L’état de santé de l’ex-président Mikheïl Saakachvili inquiète 📰 https://www.election-politique.com/revuedepresse.php
#RevuedePresse #Politique #International #Géorgie #Saakashvili
🇺🇦🇬🇪 Procès Saakachvili : Zelensky expulse l’ambassadeur de Géorgie en Ukraine 📰 https://www.election-politique.com/revuedepresse.php
#RevuedePresse #Politique #International #Ukraine #Zelensky #Géorgie #Saakashvili
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili joined the regular court session online. His assistant posted photos and videos of how he looks now.
#Saakashvili has been imprisoned for a year, and has been in the hospital for the past few months. The politician is asking for permission to go abroad for treatment. In #Georgia, he was convicted in absentia in the cases of the murder of a banker and of the pogrom of the Imedi TV company.
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A US government human rights watchdog is calling on Georgia to stop politically motivated persecutions of pro-Europe figures just a month after the government cracked down on protesters demonstrating against a foreign agent law with firehoses and batons.
The bipartisan 'Helsinki Commission' is calling on Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili to use her pardon power to release political prisoners that support European integration.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/21/georgia-us-release-political-prisoners-russia-nato-eu/
Gaunt and ghostly, Georgia’s jailed ex-president nears death in hospital.
Two decades ago, Mikheil Saakashvili led Georgia’s Rose Revolution, and the early years of his subsequent presidency were hailed by many in the west as a model for reform in post-Soviet countries.
Saakashvili warned of Putin’s ambitions 15 years ago. Now he tells of torture by a regime that panders to Moscow.
BBC News - Mikheil #Saakashvili: Thousands join mass anti-government #rally in #Georgia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65228755
BBC News - Mikheil #Saakashvili: Poland offers medics to examine #Georgia ex-leader
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64943811
😪 Спілкувався сьогодні з одним британським журналістом, який живе в Грузії.
Він каже, що одне британське видання вже проготувало obituary - некролог на ім'я Саакашвілі, який невдовзі може загинути у грузинській в'язниці.
Це буле величезний злочин нинішнього проросійського уряду Грузії, за який їх будуть судити, й скоріше за все в Грузії відбудеться чергова революція.
Але найважливіше – це відкине Грузію з усіма її реформами на десятиліття назад
Parliament urges Georgia to pardon and release ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili
MEPs say the way former President Mikheil #Saakashvili is being treated is a litmus test of the Georgian government’s commitment to European values.
More Details ⤵️https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230210IPR74701/one-year-of-russia-s-war-against-ukraine-press-seminar-with-key-meps
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EuroParlPress/status/1625864713669148674
🗳 With an overwhelming majority, the @europarl_en today adopted a resolution on our request calling for the release of Mikheil #Saakashvili by the 🇬🇪 Georgian authorities.
It's been over a year since @SaakashviliM was incarcerated. His health has been critical.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1625889986753994754
Is Georgia’s jailed ex-president a victim of the kremlin? - BBC Newsnight
In ex-Soviet #georgia former president Mikheil #Saakashvili was convicted of committing abuses of power while in office and has been in jail since he returned from exile in October 2021.
The BBC's Caucuses correspondent Rayhan Dimitqui looks at russia's reach.
(7 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗https://youtu.be/Tctgk029Glo
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine
A Georgian court has rejected an appeal to release former President Mikheil Saakashvili from prison on health grounds.
Saakashvili appeared at a court hearing last week via video link in which he lifted his shirt to show the kind of weight loss he suffered during his time in prison.
Several European officials have called for his release, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy vowing to ensure his release.
https://www.dw.com/en/mikheil-saakashvili-georgia-court-rejects-release-bid/a-64626599
The plight of Mikheil Saakashvili casts a shadow on Georgia’s EU aspirations.
The health of the former president has deteriorated rapidly in detention, amid allegations of poisoning.
It is likely to further strain the west’s relations with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which is nominally pro-European but has ties to Russia and has depicted Saakashvili as a “Nazi” who should never return to power.
https://www.ft.com/content/8a3b2307-7e5e-4ec6-8913-834e3d13921e
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the release of former Georgian President Saakashvili, who is reportedly being poisoned in detention in Tbilisi.
“Right now, Ukrainian citizen, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is being slowly killed,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter, above a picture showing an emaciated Saakashvili, pulling up his shirt to show his weight loss as he appeared at his trial through a video call.
#Georgia's jailed former #president, Mikheil #Saakashvili , has told a court in #Tbilisi that he's being tortured and poisoned. Speaking by video link from a #hospital bed, Mr Saakashvili said his condition was declining. His lawyers have appealed to the court to have his sentence deferred on humanitarian grounds so he can get urgent medical treatment abroad.
Zelensky Suspects Georgian Government Wants to Kill Saakashvili, Playing Up to russia.
Zelensky blasts Georgian government for its treatment of #Saakashvili
President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that the Georgian authorities intend to kill former #Georgian President and current citizen of Ukraine Mikheil Saakashvili.
Source🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11738
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine
Georgia is still far less authoritarian than Russia or Belarus, but it is fast drifting into the Kremlin’s orbit.
To appease Mr Putin, its government has refused to join sanctions against Russia or return an anti-aircraft missile system that Ukraine gave Georgia in 2008.
Georgia’s bid to be granted candidate status by the EU was sent back last June with a list of 12 demands, which the government seems in no hurry to address.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/01/31/georgia-has-drifted-into-the-kremlins-orbit
Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili: 'Everything Ukraine is going through today, we've already experienced'.
'I'm imprisoned by a regime that is using my captivity as an act of allegiance to Vladimir Putin,' the former Georgian president writes to 'Le Monde' from his prison hospital cell.