Saakashvili in Ukraine asked for protection from Georgia

The lawyer of the politician has submitted to the Migration service of Ukraine a statement on the recognition of your customer “person in need of complementary protection”.

The lawyer of ex-head of the Odessa regional state administration Mikhail Saakashvili Markiyan Halabala Monday, September 11, came to the State migration service of Ukraine with the statement for recognition of the defendant by a person who needs extra protection.

“The filing of such statements provided for by the law on the status of refugees and persons which need additional protection,” said Halabala.
The lawyer explained that for filing such statements of Saakashvili’s protection, there were several factors that played an important role.

“Mikheil Saakashvili may be subject to prosecution by the Georgian authorities. Accordingly, the information distributed by the Deputy Minister of justice Sergey Petukhov, Georgia filed a request for extradition Mikheil Saakashvili. We are afraid that as a result of satisfaction of this request for Saakashvili would face torture in Georgia, or he will not have the right to a fair trial. To prevent the transmission of Saakashvili in Georgia and the state of Ukraine took on additional responsibilities for the protection of Saakashvili, we have filed this statement,” – said Halabala.

The lawyer pointed out that as of today, Saakashvili has extra protection from the country of the state of Ukraine as a stateless person but with permanent residence in the country.

While Halabala, referring to part 9 article 9 of the law of Ukraine on the state border of Ukraine, said that “it is not a violation of the rules of crossing the state border of the forced crossing of the state border by persons committed in a state of emergency, as well as other forced circumstances”.

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