Hunger-striking former Georgian leader needs hospital treatment -doctor

FILE PHOTO: Georgia's former President Mikheil Saakashvili speaks with journalists after his meeting with members of Ukraine's Servant of the People parliamentary faction in Kiev, Ukraine April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Jailed former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike, needs treatment in hospital as his condition is worsening, his personal doctor was quoted as saying by the RIA and TASS news agencies on Sunday.

But Georgia's penitentiary service said in a statement such claims were untrue and Saakashvili's condition was "satisfactory".