Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze said that the time will definitely come when convicted ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili, who is in the private Vivamed clinic in Tbilisi, will be transferred back to prison, Ednews reports citing local media.

"The time will come, and he will definitely be transferred to an appropriate penitentiary institution, because in Georgia a convicted prisoner serves his or her sentence in a penitentiary institution. This day will definitely come," Bregadze said in an interview with the Imedi TV channel.

Note that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced earlier on Thursday that it had completely rejected Saakashvili's two complaints in which he accused the country's current authorities of persecution on political grounds. According to the published ruling, Saakashvili claimed that the verdicts issued against him on January 5 and June 28, 2018, were based on unverified rumors and other unreliable evidence. In 2018, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced Saakashvili in absentia to three years in prison for the murder of banker Sandro Girgvliani. In the same year, he was sentenced to six years in prison in the case of the attack on lawmaker Valery Gelashvili.