Mikheil Saakashvili returned from clinic to prison: ex-President will continue to serve 12-year sentence

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, after a long treatment at the private clinic Vivamed, returned to correctional facility No. 12. There he will continue to serve his sentence, which will last until April 1, 2034.

This was reported by Echo of the Caucasus.

The Georgian Penitentiary Service stated that Saakashvili's health is currently satisfactory, so there is no need for further inpatient treatment.

Saakashvili served as President of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, and after the end of his term he received Ukrainian citizenship. In 2021, he returned to Georgia, where he was arrested on a previously issued in absentia sentence.

In March 2025, the ex-President was also sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison for illegally crossing the border in October 2021. The total term of his sentence is 12 years and 6 months.

In 2023, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appealed to the President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili with a request to pardon Mikheil Saakashvili, but the decision was not made.