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Rati Bregadze: "I Have Never Mentioned the Term ‘End of Hunger Strike' In Any of The TV Interviews. I Said - He Gets Natural Juices and Different Porridges"
According to the Minister of Justice, he never said on any TV interview that prisoner Saakashvili had stopped his hunger strike. Rati Bregadze explains that he only said that Saakashvili took natural juices and various porridges. According to him, the mentioned information was made public in response to the MP's question, which the agency was obliged to respond.
"I have never used the term 'stopped hunger strike' in any TV interview. I am responsible for all my words. It was as follows: he takes natural juices and different types of porridge. Here I will tell you where this information came from. We received the MP question we were obliged to answer. The question was: Does he take any supplements that may have a positive effect on the effects of hunger strike? Mr. Sarjveladze addressed us with this question and we, naturally, gave the answer. However, in this response we had not mention anything about stopping a hunger strike. They wanted to prove to the ECHR and to our international partners that, instead of calling for an end of hunger strike, we were forcing him to go on. However, these are the opponents who called on the prisoner through open broadcasts not to dare to end the hunger strike, otherwise his image as of a politician would have been ruined," Rati Bregadze said live on Rustavi 2.
According to him, the Ministry of Justice fully shares the spirit of the decision of the ECHR and the health and safety of Saakashvili, as well as other prisoners, is important for the agency.
"We fully share the spirit of the decision of the Strasbourg court and, naturally, we want this person, like all other prisoners, to be healthy. The health and safety of all prisoners is our responsibility and we must not forget that in addition to Mr. Saakashvili we have more than 9,000 prisoners and we pay due attention to them. "All prisoners are equal before the law," Rati Bregadze said.