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US to Georgia: Don’t touch Saakashvili, he’s our SOB ― RT Op-Edge

Following criminal charges filed against former President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia by the prosecutor's office, Tbilisi City Court accepted the prosecution's motion and ordered the fugitive president's pretrial detention in absentia.

The charges include abuse of power, violent dispersal of peaceful protest rallies, persecution and intimidation of political rivals, and the unlawful expropriation of the Imedi TV channel.