TBILISI: Georgia's ruling party and the opposition on Wednesday staged rival rallies ahead of local elections with the Caucasus country's primary government critic Mikheil Saakashvili on hunger strike in jail.
The independent Pirveli TV station said state employees had been forced to attend the gathering that drew tens of thousands, according to an AFP estimate. Saakashvili, Georgia's president from 2004-2013, was arrested and imprisoned Oct 1, days after he secretly returned from exile in Ukraine. Doctors have expressed concerns over the risk of irreversible damage to his health, but Georgia's health ministry has rejected their call to hospitalise Saakashvili.
Prime Minister Garibashvili sparked an uproar recently saying the government had to arrest Saakashvili because he had refused to quit politics.
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