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Ukrainian Agents Detain Saakashvili, Hours After He Called For March

RFE/RL December 08, 2017

KYIV -- Law enforcement officers have detained Mikheil Saakashvili, hours after the firebrand Ukrainian opposition activist and former Georgian president called on Ukrainians to demonstrate in the capital against the government.

Three associates of Saakashvili told RFE/RL that he was taken from an apartment of one of his friends, where he was visiting.

Close ally David Sakvarelidze said the agents were from the state security agency, the SBU, and that Saakashvili was now being taken to an SBU detention center.

Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko later confirmed his detention in a post to his Facebook page.

Hours earlier, Saakashvili, who was detained briefly this week after authorities raided his Kyiv apartment, called on Ukrainians to demonstrate in the capital on December 10.

In a Facebook post, Saakashvili told supporters he had lost his voice and was running a temperature but would "be by your side again" at a midday march to Kyiv's Independence Square.

Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-saakashvili-detained- kyiv-sbu-lutsenko/28905845.html

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