Convicts Irakli Pirtskhalava and Giorgi Tsaadze start hunger strike as sign of solidarity with Mikheil Saakashvili

Convicts Irakli Pirtskhalava and Giorgi Tsaadze have started a hunger strike as a sign of solidarity with Mikheil Saakashvili.

As Pirtskhalava's wife Nino Khvitia told InterpressNews, Tsaadze and Pirtskhalava will be on a hunger strike until Saakashvili himself does not stop the hunger strike.

According to her, in the near future, probably, today, representatives of the Public Defender will visit the convicts.

"It is his personal decision and he expresses solidarity with our third president Mikheil Saakashvili. Giorgi Tsaadze and Irakli Pirtskhalava started a hunger strike. They themselves say that they will stop the hunger strike as soon as Mikheil Saakashvili stops it,” Khvitia said.

Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1, and after being transferred to Rustavi prison he started a hunger strike.

As for Irakli Pirtskhalava and Giorgi Tsaadze, they are serving their sentences in connection with the special operation conducted by the Criminal Police, which claimed the lives of Zurab Vazagashvili and Aleksandre Khubulov on May 2, 2006.