“Ivanishvili starts every morning with an obsessive thought — well, whom shall I harm today? This time, yesterday he returned me to Dilege. Of course, they moved me to Rustavi prison without warning, where exactly the same people awaited me who poisoned me in March 2022. Back then I miraculously survived and I still have the symptoms of that poisoning to this day.

Thanks to the doctors at Vivamed who fought for my life. Against the background of so many prisoners and so much suffering, I do not ask for any special sympathy for myself. Why did they return me now to the executioners? Precisely because they want to intimidate my numerous supporters; secondly, this sends a concrete message to the West and to Ukraine, where I am still listed as chairman of Zelenskyy’s Reform Council. The point is that Ivanishvili once undertook the obligation to preserve my life, and now, by this act, he is telling Europeans and Americans that that promise — like all the others — is no longer valid. I am convinced that all of this is agreed with Moscow. The thing is, for the world in the post-Soviet space I am the most successful symbol of reforms and also of Georgia’s freedom and statehood.

They are destroying Georgia’s freedom and independence and they are destroying me as well.

Today I want to tell people what I have been saying all this time: under no circumstances give up and fight, because our victory is inevitable. Glory to freedm,” Saakashvili writes.