French Ambassador for Human Rights was not allowed to Yu.Tymoshenko
| "STATUS QUO", Kharkiv, 2012-01-18, 16:55 |
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French Ambassador for Human Rights, François Ziemer was not allowed to Kachanovsky female colony to the ex-Prime Minister, a leader of the "Batkivschyna" Yulia Tymoshenko. It was said by the Ambassador near the colony on January 18. According to him, prison officials motivated their refusal saying that Tymoshenko is now under investigations.
F. Ziemer said he was disappointed and concerned about the refusal. "I stress that I have come to gather information, not to pass a sentence. I am very surprised by the reason why we were denied that was an unexpected interrogation," said the Ambassador. According to him, a request to visit Yulia Tymoshenko was given to all competent authorities. "We were not told that the request was issued or filed with violations. I did not expect that it would be a fundamental decision. Only when I arrived in the colony, I found out about this interview," said F. Ziemer.
"I think that Europe does not have the article on which Yu.Tymoshenko was sentenced," said the Ambassador. He also said that tomorrow he plans to meet with two other Ukrainian prisoners that are former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and former Acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko.
"SQ" Reference. F. Ziemer arrived in Kharkov specially for meeting with Yulia Tymoshenko.
October 11, 2011 Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced by the Kyiv Pechersk district court to seven years imprisonment for abuse of power at the signing of gas agreements with Russia in 2009. Also in October another criminal case against Tymoshenko was initiated for the imposition of UESU corporate debt on a budget of Ukraine. December 30 Tymoshenko was taken to serve her sentence in Kachanovsky female colony.
January 18 it was announced that a criminal case against Yu.Tymoshenko was referred to the Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region.
