Polish doctors allowed to examine Saakashvili

Polish doctors have received permission to visit and examine Georgia's imprisoned ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.

The statement came from Radio Liberty's Europe editor, Rikard Jozwiak, with reference to unnamed EU officials, European Pravda reports.

"A group of Polish doctors got access to Saakashvili. There is no date when they will go to Georgia yet," Jozwiak wrote on Twitter.

He separately stressed that there is no question of transferring the Georgian ex-president to Poland or somewhere else for treatment.

Recently, the state of health of Saakashvili, a prisoner in Georgia, has deteriorated significantly. At the EU summit on February 10, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Poland was ready to accept the politician for treatment.

In late February, the EU filed an official protest to the Georgian authorities against Saakashvili after Hungary unblocked this decision. It called for Saakashvili to be released from punishment for treatment in Poland.

The Georgian authorities refuse to grant permission for the treatment of their political opponent abroad.

Subsequently, Warsaw said that a group of Polish doctors was ready to fly to Tbilisi to assist Saakashvili and was waiting for the formal consent of the Georgian authorities.