"Refusal to rehabilitate a torture victim is a form of continued torture... Today in court Mikheil Saakashvili openly said - I am sick, I need a doctor, and I am not getting treatment"

"The refusal to rehabilitate a torture victim is a form of continued torture... Mikheil Saakashvili said openly in court today - I am sick, I need a doctor, and I am not being treated" - Nika Gvaramia said.

If there is going to be an investigation of torture, indeed it is even more likely that this or that action against him will be continuous, Mrs. Mariam will agree with me that the refusal to rehabilitate a torture victim, refusal to rehabilitate a hunger striker, whether it is part of refeeding, whether it is part of physiological health, whether it is part of psychological and mental health, it is a form of torture continuity.

This does not mean that a nail has to be forced uner his fingernails every day, no, when you do not rehabilitate, his condition does not change, at least it does not improve, and we know that it worsens because of his neurological status, this is a violation of Article 3 of the decision of the Strasbourg Court, the continuation of torture under the International Convention on Torture, and this also applies to our legislation, because it is almost identical, directly copying the convention legislation in our legislation.

So as Mikheil Saakashvili said, the motion was based on the fact that by the way the judge could not reject the motion and said that it is not satisfactory at this stage.

Everything has its price, a denial is an answer and such a denial which is an open and superficial violation, when a person goes to court and the political text he had was large, but 3 or 4 times the person repeated that he was sick, while not being treated. He asks to be treated, what else is he asking for. I am sick and I must be treated, by he's saying it directly. And what is the answer going to be? How long can this continue?

For me at this point in time, the first priority is to get this person out of there healthy. Or rather, he may not get out of there healthy, but get out and then get well. As for everything else, it is far less interesting to me. This is the first challenge of life at this point," says Nika Gvaramia.