TBILISI -About 2,000 Georgian citizens whose rights were infringed under ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are rallying outside a jail in Rustavi where he is being held.
“The people of Georgia won’t allow Saakashvili to get out of jail. He is a personification of fascism and fascism has no place in Georgia. The man who voluntarily gave up on his Georgian citizen is not worthy of being called a president. I don’t want to talk about his personal life, but his official wife, Dutchwoman Sandra Roelofs, is still a Georgian citizen,” Zaza Davitaya, the journalist who was a political prisoner during Saakashvili’s presidency, said at the rally.
Participants in the rally are making speeches describing how their relatives were murdered or tortured and their property was seized “during Saakashvili’s regime.”
Participants in the rally demand Saakashvili’s term for life.
Tamaz Molashvili, the host of the rally, shared how his brother Sulkhan Molashvili, chairman of the Control Chamber at the time, was tortured in jail during Saakashvili’s term of office and said that the former president’s United National Movement party must be banned.
