US EditionGeorgia’s Jailed Ex-Leader Saakashvili Asks Zelensky to Exchange Him in POW Swap
Saakashvili seeks POW status to enable prisoner exchange and legal protections, claiming fabricated charges and treatment for severe poisoning in Georgian custody.
- On November 13, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili appealed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be added to the list of civilian prisoners of war in a Facebook post.
- Saakashvili says he was detained on `completely fabricated charges` as Georgian authorities accuse him of `sabotage in favor of a foreign hostile state`.
- Saakashvili says he is a Ukrainian citizen and leads the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council, recently discharged from hospital after severe poisoning and returned to Penitentiary Colony No.
- He invoked President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's 2019 restoration of citizenship as precedent, arguing Georgian authorities treat Ukraine as a `foreign hostile state` with legal consequences.
- Prior convictions, including a nine-year embezzlement sentence and a four years and six months border-crossing sentence from March 17 rulings at the Tbilisi City Court, complicate swap prospects.
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Georgia's Jailed Ex-leader Saakashvili Asks Zelensky To Exchange Him In POW Swap
Georgia's jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has Ukrainian citizenship, has on Thursday appealed to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to exchange him in a prisoner swap with Russia.
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