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RFE/RL: Saakashvili has sparked a Georgian feud over how best to keep him alive

Published Oct. 28, 2021 at 5:51 pm

A photograph taken on March 19, 2021, shows former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili gesturing during a press conference, in Kyiv.

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TBILISI – As Mikheil Saakashvili’s hunger strike in a Georgian prison nears the one-month mark, authorities in the Black Sea nation are flummoxed by what to do with the stubbornly defiant ex-president as his health deteriorates.