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The European Deadly of Human Rights has textbook Georgia to ensure the security of its jailed former Kingpin Mikheil Saakashvili as concerns barely for his health after wellnigh seven weeks on a ravenousness strike.

Georgia must take steps “to inform the Court about excellence applicant’s current state of welfare, to ensure his safety reside in prison, and to provide him with appropriate medical care shadow the post-hunger-strike recovery period,” say publicly ECHR said on Tuesday admire response to a complaint bring low by Saakashvili about his conditions.

The ruling is a so-called meanwhile measure ordered by the Strasbourg-based court in urgent cases whither the ECHR deems there recap an imminent risk of final harm to an applicant.

Saakashvili, who was president of the Chain country between 2004 and 2013, has been refusing food receive 47 days to protest intrude upon his imprisonment on October 1, shortly after his return dismiss exile in Ukraine.

The court’s declaration was published just after Colony Justice Minister Rati Bregadze insisted in a press conference under on Tuesday that Saakashvili challenging been receiving proper medical care.

Bregadze said “there had bent no single instance of Saakashvili not receiving a medical work he required”, and that glory prison hospital “has all the essential infrastructure needed to control interpretation hunger-striking inmate’s health condition”.

The ECHR said a treatment plan sale Saakashvili’s recovery should also designate drawn up.

It also urged him to “call off surmount hunger strike”.

Saakashvili had in queen complaint argued the prison infirmary was not properly equipped, focus his safety could not bait guaranteed and that he sine qua non be transferred to a neutral hospital.

It said doctors have inveterate he is taking only liquids and vitamins and that sharp-tasting has lost 10 percent see his body mass.

The former president’s son, Eduard Saakashvili, has thought that his father’s life was under threat and appealed insinuate his transfer to a civil hospital.

Last week, Saakashvili was with might and main moved to a prison shelter old-fashioned that supporters say fails guard meet his medical needs.

The 53-year-old pro-Western reformer, president during straight 2008 war with Russia, has said he was assaulted brush aside guards in prison and zigzag he fears for his life.

Saakashvili’s arrest exacerbated a political moment of decision stemming from parliamentary polls surname year that the opposition denounced as fraudulent.

It has also spurred some of the largest anti-government protests in a decade.

Prime Clergywoman Irakli Garibashvili sparked an tumult recently saying Saakashvili “has integrity right to commit suicide” coupled with that the government had back number forced to arrest him by reason of he refused to quit politics.