Threats of transfer to the Gldani prison - Nika Gvaramia appeals to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine

Mikael Saakashvili's lawyer Nika Gvaramia appeals to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. He focuses on threats to transfer the third president to Gldani prison. Nika Gvaramia urges the agency to launch an investigation:

"If you get sick, we will take you to Gldani".

Saakashvili no longer has the right to get sick. The above text is a threat of torture, which is a separate crime.

I appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine:

Torture is a conventional extraterritorial crime. Prosecution of the perpetrator of torture is mandatory in the territory of Ukraine no matter where the torture is applied. Also for the torture of a citizen of Ukraine it is obligatory to prosecute those responsible irrespective of what country he is a citizen of, where he is and in what position.

Therefore, as Mikhail Saakashvili's lawyer, I am asking the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine to launch an investigation into the torture of Mikhail Saakashvili directly by the those involved, whether by giving orders, incitement, organization, improper treatment or other means.

This is the responsibility of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine and its competence in this regard is unlimited. Given the fact that the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia is not responding to Saakashvili's torture, but is itself complicit in this orchestrated crime, I believe that the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine should urgently apply the mandatory measures envisaged by its mandate.

"I also call on the Public Defender of Ukraine to monitor this process," Nika Gvaramia wrote.