Public Defender says medical council will visit Mikheil Saakashvili in coming days

According to Public Defender Levan Ioseliani, the medical council created by the ombudsman will visit Mikheil Saakashvili in the coming days.

As Ioseliani noted, the medical council itself decides when and how often it should meet with Saakashvili, therefore, this process cannot be hampered by him.

"There is no opposition to the process from my side and it cannot be for the simple reason that the medical council itself decides how often and when it will enter prison. From my side, the formal part, which is related to the documents, has been settled long ago, the credentials have been signed. As for when they will enter, according to my information, the visit has already been scheduled. They refrain from making public this information, so I won't talk about it either, but this visit will take place in the near future", said Levan Ioseliani.

Regarding the admission of Polish doctors, Ioseliani says that this issue is for the Government to decide, and he believes that any interested doctor should be given the opportunity to visit Saakashvili.

"As for the Polish doctors, this issue is not within the mandate of the Public Defender, it is up to the Government to decide. Government representatives also made a statement about this, and I believe that any doctor who is interested in his condition, whether he is Polish or anyone else, should be given the opportunity to visit him", said Levan Ioseliani.

He also spoke about the filing of a lawsuit with the Strasbourg court on the postponement of Saakashvili's sentence and noted that the lawsuit should be prepared by human rights defenders, while the ffice of the ombudsman helps in requesting the necessary documentation.

"His human rights defenders should work on the lawsuit. We are only helping to request all the necessary documents from VivaMedi and deliver them to the relevant parties," he said.