Mearakishvili refused medication and water
Activist Tamara Mearakishvili, arrested on espionage charges, stopped taking her medication after meeting with a prison official. She has thus completely given up water, which she previously used to wash down her medications, and is now on a dry hunger strike.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on December 24, the Tskhinvali City Court chose a preventive measure for activist Tamara Mearakishvili – she was sent to pretrial detention for two months. Georgian activists have called the case fabricated and called on the country's authorities to intervene in her defense. Tamara Mearakishvili, who was arrested in Tskhinvali, continues her hunger strike; her lawyer has appealed the decision to arrest her. Telegram users have deemed the espionage case against the activist fabricated. The arrest of ethnic Georgian Tamara Mearakishvili is connected to attempts to "destabilize the situation in the republic," stated South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev, emphasizing that the authorities have long failed to take any action against her. The Supreme Court of South Ossetia ignored the defense's arguments about the political motives behind the activist's persecution and upheld her arrest. Mearakishvili is being persecuted for her civic stance, and this case damages the reputation of the South Ossetian authorities, human rights activists believe.
On December 22, the South Ossetian Prosecutor General's Office announced that a criminal case for espionage had been opened against a Georgian citizen . According to security officials, she collected and transmitted information about strategically important sites while in South Ossetia. The prosecutor's office did not name the detainee, but the agency's announcement was made public following the disappearance of activist Tamara Mearakishvili. Before Mearakishvili went silent, she told friends that unknown individuals had broken into her rented apartment in Tskhinvali through the balcony. Security forces had previously been spotted near the apartment, knocking on the door and speaking with neighbors. Before their visit, Mearakishvili announced on social media that she would be going on a hunger strike starting tomorrow (December 23) in protest against the "arbitrariness of the authorities."
Tamara Mearakishvili, who continues her hunger strike in the pretrial detention center, also refused to take her medication today, the defendant's lawyer, Alan Bazzaev, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to the lawyer, she made this decision after a representative of the Penitentiary Service commented on her refusal to end her hunger strike with the words: "It's okay, there will be one less Georgian." Mearakishvili herself told Bazzaev this.
"She believes that in such conditions, taking any medication from the pretrial detention center staff could be dangerous for her. Therefore, she has stopped taking any medication. Until now, she at least washed them down with water, but now she doesn't even drink that. I have "Her condition is already causing serious concern. I am going to write a letter to the Prosecutor General and demand a response to this attitude towards my client," said Alan Bazzaev.
According to him, Mearakishvili needed painkillers and medications to regulate her blood pressure.
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