Shalva Papuashvili: It is shameful that for 20 years people have to watch those European politicians, who first covered the crimes of Saakashvili in power, now they are trying to free him from a just punishment

The record of the resolution on Mikheil Saakashvili is shameful, with which the official institution of the European Union is trying to release Mikheil Saakashvili from a just punishment by illegal pressure, - said the Speaker of the Parliament Shalva Papuashvili at the press conference held at the office of "Georgian Dream".

According to him, it is shameful that for 20 years the Georgian people have to watch those European politicians who first covered the crimes of Mikheil Saakashvili, who was in power, and now, using European institutions, they are trying to free him unconditionally from a just punishment.

"I will remind the MEPs, for whom the support of this resolution is only statistics, that we are talking about a person who, with the recognition of the European Court of Human Rights (the case of Ochigawa v. Georgia), created a "torture system" in Georgian prisons; closed or pocketed all televisions; Hundreds of thousands of people experienced the tragic consequences of his regime in the then prisons; It is shameful that for 20 years, the Georgian people have to watch those European politicians who first covered the crimes of Mikheil Saakashvili in power, and now, using European institutions, they are trying to free him unconditionally from a just punishment", said Shalva Papuashvili.

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