Mikheil Saakashvili ends hunger strike

Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili has decided to end his hunger strike, Report's Georgian bureau reports that his lawyer Nika Gvaramia told journalists about it after visiting his client.

"My hunger strike is already becoming a weapon of Russians and the current government against me. I have made a decision to take into account the calls and end the hunger strike," Gvaramia read out a letter from Saakashvili, which he received from the convict after meeting with him.

The politician returned to Georgia on October 1 after seven years of emigration. He was immediately detained by the police - he figures in a number of criminal cases.