Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has said that “bureaucrats in Brussels” should reimburse the expenses incurred during former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s three-and-a-half-year stay in a private medical clinic, claiming their pressure led to his transfer from prison for treatment, News.Az reports, citing Georgian media.

Georgia’s jailed former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to include him on the list of civilian prisoners for exchange after he was returned to prison from a civilian clinic in Tbilisi, News.Az reports, citing Georgian media.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been returned to Penitentiary Institution No. 12 in Rustavi to continue serving his sentence under the standard regime, Georgia’s Penitentiary Service announced on Thursday.

Georgia’s Prosecutor-General’s Office has launched a criminal case against former President Mikheil Saakashvili and seven opposition leaders, according to the Interpress news agency.

A court in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Monday gave former President Mikheil Saakashvili an additional four-and-a-half year sentence in prison, almost a week after he was given a nine-year sentence for embezzling public funds.

The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to nine years in prison for embezzling budgetary funds.