In blue ink, the handwritten scrawl of imprisoned former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is sometimes difficult to make out.
“If I’d predicted such a swift invasion [of Ukraine], and also my torture and poisoning in prison, I wouldn’t have come back [to Georgia],” he wrote on pieces of paper passed to his lawyer from his Tbilisi hospital room. “I’m afraid of the west’s loss of interest in the war. And I’m afraid of my death in prison — and it’s inevitable if I do stay here — because it would be a major victory for Putin.”
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