The government of Georgia said on Monday that it had no intention of releasing jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili before the end of his six-year sentence, also raising the prospect of fresh charges if he did not “behave.” As hundreds of Saakashvili supporters rallied outside the prison near Tbilisi to call for his freedom, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili declared that “No one on the planet can convince us to release Saakashvili.” Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, a long-standing enemy of her predecessor, has said she “will never pardon” him. Undeterred, demonstrators waved Georgian flags and chanted Saakashvili’s name in Rustavi, outside the …
