“I Am a Citizen of Ukraine”: Saakashvili Asks Zelenskyy to Add Him to List of Civilian Prisoners of War

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has appealed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asking to be added to the list of civilian prisoners of war in the Russia’s war against Ukraine.

In a statement posted on Facebook on November 13, Saakashvili said he had recently been discharged from hospital, where he was treated following what he described as a severe poisoning, and returned to Penitentiary Colony No. 12.

Saakashvili said he was imprisoned on “completely fabricated charges,” adding that a new criminal case now accuses him of “sabotage in favor of a foreign hostile state.”

He claimed that by bringing such charges, the Georgian authorities are effectively declaring Ukraine a “foreign hostile state.”

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“I am a citizen of Ukraine and the head of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council, where I had the honor of working under your leadership. I want to ask you, just as you did in 2019 when you restored my unlawfully revoked citizenship, to include me—as the former head of the Odesa Regional Administration and as the head of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council, who is being unlawfully held by Georgia’s pro-Russian regime—in the list of civilian prisoners of this war, with all the corresponding legal consequences,” he wrote.

Previously, a Georgian court has found former President Mikheil Saakashvili guilty of illegally crossing the state border. The verdict was delivered on March 17 at the Tbilisi City Court.

For the border-crossing charge alone, Saakashvili received a sentence of four years and six months.

Before this latest ruling, Saakashvili had already been sentenced to nine years in prison in a separate case involving large-scale embezzlement of public funds.

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