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So, it's been confirmed that Mikheil Saakashvili has been arrested by the SBU. RFE/RL's Christopher Miller has sent us this report:
Ukrainian Law Enforcement Detain Saakashvili, Hours After Calling For March
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 a SBU detention center.
Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko later confirmed his detention, saying in a post to his Facebook page that "everything was done to avoid bloodshed."
"The detainee is placed in a temporary detention facility," he wrote.
Apartment Raid
Hours earlier, Saakashvili, who was detained briefly this week after authorities raided his Kyiv apartment, called on Ukrainians to demonstrate in Kyiv on December 10.
In a Facebook post, Saakashvili told supporters that 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,which was the site of the months-long 2013-14 protests that ousted the country's pro-Russia president Viktor Yanukovych.
Saakashvili, who became governor of Ukraine's Odesa region in 2015 but quit a year later and is now a vocal opponent of President Petro Poroshenko, thanked backers for their support in the tumult of recent days.
Law enforcement officers searched Saakashvili’s apartment in Kyiv on December 5, dragged him off the roof, and bundled him into a car.
But supporters blocked the streets and pulled him from the vehicle, and he then led a march to parliament.
A day later, police raided a protest tent camp near parliament, but Saakashvili was not detained and a 24-hour deadline for him to turn himself in passed without visible action by the authorities.
'Criminal Group'
Ukrainian officials have accused Saakashvili of abetting an alleged "criminal group" led by former Yanukoych -- who was pushed from power in 2014 and fled to Russia -- and have suggested that his protests are part of a Russian plot against Ukraine.
Saakashvili has dismissed the claims.
The search of Saakashvili's home was conducted two days after his Movement of New Forces party organized a rally in Kyiv calling for Poroshenko's impeachment and for legislation that would allow it to take place.
Poroshenko said late on December 8 that international experts may help justice officials investigate the charges against Saakashvili, adding that he was sure Saakashvili would get a fair trial in Ukraine.
"I don't exclude that the inquiry may ask for extra expertise, including from international organizations, to enhance trust," Poroshenko told reporters during a visit to Vilnius to meet with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.
Saakashvili "has to answer to investigators and to society regarding the accusations against him," Poroshenko said. "If he doesn't answer, it only means that these accusations are well-founded."
With reporting by AFP
This message posted on Mikheil Saakashvili's Facebook page ten minutes ago seems to confirm that he has been detained by authorities.