KYIV, Nov 12 - Ukraine's president told Georgia's leader on Friday to refrain from "disproportionate coercive measures" against jailed, hunger-striking former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who holds Ukrainian citizenship he obtained while in exile, Reuters reported.

Saakashvili, Georgia's president for nine years until 2013, was arrested on Oct. 1 after returning to his native country to rally the opposition on the eve of municipal elections. He faces six years jail for abuse of office, from a 2018 trial held in absentia which he rejects as political.