Georgian prosecutors summon ex-president Saakashvili for questioning.

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(Reuters) - The Georgian prosecutor's office has summoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili for questioning about the poisoning death of a former prime minister and other cases amid a wave of charges and verdicts against former officials.

He will also be questioned on alleged government misspending, a raid on a Tbilisi television station and a presidential pardon for four murder convicts during his two terms in office from 2004 to 2013, prosecutor Koka Katsitadze told a news conference on Saturday

Saakashvili's party lost power to an opposition coalition in 2012. Since then, dozens of former officials have been charged or sentenced in cases his allies have called a government witch-hunt against them.

Western countries have expressed concern that the government has used selective justice and political persecution against opponents in the mountainous ex-Soviet republic, which is a pivot of geopolitical rivalry between Russia and the West.

After mentioning the death of former prime minister Zurab Zhvania and several corruption cases, Katsitadze told journalists: "We need to question Saakashvili ... as a witness in connection with these other cases as well."

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/22/uk-georgia-saakashvili-prosecutors-idUKBREA2L0CF20140322

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1. I think this is a good sign. If the rule of law is to take hold in Georgia, it must be applied to...

... everyone. Even those that believe themselves to be immune from it due to their backing from far away, be it from Russia or America or wherever.