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Kharkiv – There are no video surveillance cameras in the cells of the Kachanivska Penal Colony in Kharkiv, where former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has to serve her sentence, Batkivschyna parliamentary faction MPs Oleksandra Kuzhel has said. 

“There are no video surveillance cameras in either of the cells, even in those where people sentenced to life in prison are kept. [There are no cameras] in the bathrooms, the cells where they sleep, and the changing rooms. They only monitor the halls,” the politician told journalists on Wednesday following a visit to the Kachanivska prison.

The MP said that the norm of the legislation that allows the surveillance of convicts using video cameras is applied to Tymoshenko only.

Kuzhel also said that convicts could use coin phones on the colony.

In turn, MP Tetiana Sliuz said that the colony chief told them that the installation of the video surveillance equipment at Tymoshenko’s ward at Kharkiv-based Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 cost Hr 5,000.

Earlier, Head of the Kachanivska Penal Colony Ihor Kolpaschykov said that there are three cameras in Tymoshenko’s ward.