Friday, December 5, 2025

Saakashvili offers to give testimony, but only during trial

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Mikheil Saakashvili speaking at Independence Square in Kiev March 29, 2014. (Maestro TV.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former President Mikheil Saakashvili offers the current government his own rules of the game; rules which are against Georgian legislation.

The rules in question are about how to question witnesses in criminal cases. This issue has been a source

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Saakashvili did not show up, supporters and opponents clash

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Supporters and opponents of Mikheil Saakashvili fought each other outside the Chief Prosecutor’s office in Tbilisi, where the former Georgian president failed to show up for questioning today. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili was supposed to meet at the Prosecutor’s Office today at 13:00, but he didn’t come. Supporters and opponents had gathered at the office and clashed and two people were detained for hooliganism.

“Today I am Misha

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Saakashvili wanted at home, party office sprayed with red paint

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Demonstrators called on former President Saakashvili to come home and answer questions about ten criminal cases. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Demonstrators in Georgia Tuesday demanded that former President Mikheil Saakashvili returns to his home country and answers questions from prosecutors.

Two people were detained for throwing red paint at party symbols outside the National Movement

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West warns Georgia against prosecuting Saakashvili

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Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves warns that Georgia’s EU treaty may be stalled if the investigation of former officials continues. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Western partners are threatening that prosecuting former President Saakashvili may jeopardize an EU treaty and membership in NATO.

Georgia has for years sought closer integration with the European Union and membership in NATO. In June,

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Saakashvili called in for questioning in numerous cases

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May become a wanted person. Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addressing the crowd at Independence Square in Kiev, December 2013. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili will be declared a wanted person if he doesn’t come and answer questions in a long list of criminal cases.

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said this today.

“If he does not come, he will be declared

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