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Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Anatoliy Pryshko has said that the defenders of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko can visit him in the emergency hospital at any time.

"The defenders of Lutsenko – his wife and two his lawyers – have been given the possibility at any time to visit him and protect his interests," the deputy prosecutor general said in the Verkhovna Rada on Friday, when asked by MPs why the prosecutor’s office did not allow the lawyer to visit Lutsenko in the hospital.

Lutsenko had been held in jail since December 26, 2010.

Kyiv Court of Appeals on April 21 extended Lutsenko’s arrest until May 26, and after that he announced his intention to go on hunger strike from April 22.

At present Lutsenko is in the Kyiv city clinical emergency hospital, where he was transferred from the medical unit of the pretrial detention center.