Alexei Navalny spoke out in support of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. He urged the Georgian authorities to "release him for treatment with a suspended sentence, or do something like that, which will allow the parties to comply with the law and save face."
“Saakashvili is very sick, and all the talk about simulation is nonsense. Believe me, the prison sucks health out of anyone and at a great speed. To release him for treatment with a suspended sentence, or to do something like that, which will allow the parties to comply with the law and save face, would be the right thing to do. Now is Passion Week, and then Easter. A good time for a difficult but merciful act for the good of the country and a step towards the reconciliation of the nation. I call on the Georgian authorities and all opponents of Mikheil Saakashvili to take this step in the spirit of Christian mercy and peacemaking,” Navalny wrote.
In early April, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, in a column for Politico, said that in the Georgian prison where he is now, he turned from a healthy and energetic man into a sick man with 20 diagnoses. Saakashvili wrote that he would soon die if he did not receive medical assistance outside the country.
Navalny himself also had health problems in the colony. Earlier, his lawyer Vadim Kobzev said that he had lost 8 kg in two weeks in the ShIZO. Kobzev did not rule out that Navalny was being "poisoned" so that his health would deteriorate not sharply, but gradually.