Shalva Papuashvili: Amnesty International has long since earned a reputation as a fraud
The Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, states that Amnesty International has earned a reputation as a fraud.
Specifically, Papuashvili shared a statement on social media by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in which he refers to Amnesty International as a fraudulent organization.
Papuashvili notes that the organization had already embarked on a path of fraud back when dealing with the case of Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili.
"It became evident as early as 2023 that Amnesty International had embarked on a path of fraud, when it joined a foreign disinformation campaign aimed at shielding Saakashvili from a lawful sentence.
Just weeks after Amnesty International issued the slanderous statement cited below, the Strasbourg court ruled that the claims made by the organization—as well as by Saakashvili’s foreign patrons—were a fraudulent lie. The Strasbourg ruling established that Saakashvili not only did not require release on health grounds, but there was not even a need to transfer him to a different hospital.
Shortly after this shameful fraud, the world learned that the 'dying dictator' had miraculously not died; he overcame cachexia, recovered from dementia, and even fathered a child. The operation to shield Saakashvili from justice through fraud failed, and Amnesty International earned a lasting reputation as a fraudster," writes Papuashvili.
On October 8, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Amnesty International is a fraudulent organization. Specifically, at a press conference in Lisbon, a Portuguese journalist asked Marco Rubio about the U.S. use of the Lajes airbase in Portugal and a potential violation of international law. The journalist cited a statement by Amnesty International asserting that "Portugal should not support war crimes." Upon the mention of Amnesty International, Rubio called the organization "fraudulent" and stated that it should focus on the "military crimes" against humanity committed by the "Iranian regime." "If you ask me what Amnesty International should focus on, I would say: the Iranian regime, which has cold-bloodedly killed tens of thousands of people on the streets of Tehran and in other parts of the country. The organization should focus on how the Iranian regime storms hospitals where wounded protesters are being treated and kills them right in their hospital beds—sometimes even killing the doctors and nurses who were treating them. These are the issues they should be focusing on. These are war crimes. These are crimes against humanity committed against their own people," Rubio added.
