"They came in wearing all black ... They tried to take me by force, I lost consciousness and I don't remember anything"

"They came in all black ... They tried to transfer me by force, I lost consciousness and remember nothing," Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's third president, wrote in an emergency address from the Gori military hospital. His lawyer Nika Gvaramia presented the appeal to the public:

To Nika Gvaramia, Nino Lomjaria and Dito Sadzaglishvili from Mikheil Saakashvili.

They came to transfer me today, it will be half past seven, in black. They informed me that I would be transferred, but they did not tell me where to.

I asked to check my blood pressure and pulse. My blood pressure was 180, on the second measurement it was 200-110. My normal blood pressure is 120-80. It was an absolute hypertensive crisis. I had never had such a pressure and pulse before.

After that, they tried to take me by force. I resisted. After that I lost consciousness and couldn't remember anything. When I came to, the doctor stood over me and told me that I wouldn't be going anywhere and that i would be staying in hospital. I was also told that my doctors would be allowed to come in but they weren't. It was the worst crisis I have ever had. They even took a video of me. Even during medical procedures, the video captured my serious condition," Mikheil Saakashvili wrote.