Posted on 03/17/2025 12:27:12 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
A court in Georgia has handed a further prison sentence to the jailed former president, Mikheil Saakashvili.
Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half years behind bars for illegally crossing the border when returning to the country from exile in 2021, his lawyer said.
He is already serving concurrent terms for embezzlement and abuse of power while in office, bringing his total sentence to more than 12 years.
Saakashvili has always denied wrongdoing and called his latest sentence "illegal" and "unjust". Rights groups say his imprisonment is politically motivated.
Saakashvili opposes the governing Georgian Dream party, which favours closer ties with Russia. As president, he sought to forge closer relations with Western governments.
In a video posted on X on Monday from the hospital where he is being held, Saakashvili said: "No matter what, I will fight to the end."
The former president was sentenced last week to nine years behind bars for embezzlement, running alongside the jail term he had already been serving. In 2018, he was tried in absentia and sentenced in two separate trials.
Saakashvili was arrested in 2021 after making a surprise return to Georgia ahead of the country's local elections by smuggling himself into the country on a ferry from Ukraine.
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It appears he was wrong.
Bout time Georgia cracked down on criminals! Atlanta is full of thugs!
U R funny.
I never go into Atlanta unless armed to the teeth.
Yes, and as much as Atlanta may try, they are not gonna be allowed to send their Thugs to Georgia!
Too cheap to take the Pelosi/Schumer online course “How to Get Away With It”.
Saakashvili is an agent of the Deep State. He caused a civil war in both Georgia and Ukraine, pushing color revolutions. He should share a jail cell with Victoria Nuland
You are exactly Accurate and have revealed the reason I posted this article!
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