It is welcome that the hunger strike has ended, these days have revealed once again that others are using this as a weapon. Such a statement made today the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

“First of all, it is welcome that she has ended her hunger strike. These days once again showed what we saw at another time, during Mikheil Saakashvili’s hunger strike – others use this as a weapon. I am shocked by the statements of the EU’s Ambassador during these days, yesterday there was also a statement, which was directly an incitement for a person to continue damaging their own health.

When a representative of the EU in Georgia does this, it shows their personal detachment from not only European but even basic human values. Instead of encouraging Mzia Amaghlobeli to end her hunger strike, we saw an incitement to continue damaging her health. This is shocking, and it was the same during Saakashvili’s time – we couldn’t get a single ambassador to tell him to stop damaging his health. Here, it is clear that for some people, she was just an instrument. If you remember, Mrs. Salome even accidentally said that Mzia Amaghlobeli was a good weapon in her hands, and it seems that for some foreigners, she was that weapon as well. It’s good that she stopped her hunger strike”, - said Shalva Papuashvili.