Head of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia Bregadze: the law does not oblige to let the Ombudsman of Ukraine to Saakashvili 
Lyudmila Denisov to the hospital of the Tbilisi prison to the former President Mikheil Saakashvili to take care of his health. This is reported by “Sputnik Georgia”.
The head of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, Rati Bregadze, said that the law does not provide for an ombudsman to visit the hospital.
“There is no such need, we do not have such an obligation. Accordingly, when a prisoner is in a hospital, we are obliged to try to protect his health as much as possible. It is with this motive that the public defender has not yet been allowed in, “Bregadze added.
According to him, it would be good if Denisova listened to the position of the Ministry of Justice before making unilateral statements after meeting with Saakashvili in Rustavi prison. “It would be nice if we met then, and she would listen to our position and the position of both sides would be taken into account,” the minister concluded.
Earlier, Denisova said that she did not wait for permission from the Ministry of Justice of Georgia to visit Saakashvili. Doctors told her that the former president, who has been on a hunger strike since the beginning of October, has started bloody vomiting and needs an urgent visit from a gastroenterologist.
Mikhail Saakashvili was detained on October 1 in Georgia, where he returned after eight years of emigration for participation in protests. Earlier, he was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for the murder of a banker and beating of a deputy. On November 8, the former president was transferred from a prison in the city of Rustavi to a prison hospital in the Gldani district of Tbilisi.