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The United National Movement (UNM) opposition party has called on the international community and NGOs to ‘take all measures’ to protect former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for 26 days.

The UNM chairman Nika Melia said yesterday that Saakashvili needs to be brought to a multi-profile civil clinic and not to a prison hospital as the Georgian Dream government officials had offered.

The UNM appeals to the international community, accredited diplomatic corps, international and local NGOs to take measures to ensure the ex-president’s ‘right to life’ and ‘personal safety.’

The opposition party asks the citizens of Georgia not to allow Saakashvili’s transfer to a prison clinic because it would ‘equal his murder.’