Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has not been allowed to meet with MP Oleksandr Turchynov and EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, as the number of her meetings with relatives and other persons exceeds the norm, the State Penitentiary Service has reported.
Tymoshenko wrote an application to the administration of Kachanivska Penal Colony No. 54 with the request that she be allowed to meet with Turchynov and the EU ambassador to Ukraine.
“In this regard, the leadership of the State Penitentiary Service informs that under the law (Articles 110 and 138 of the Criminal Executive Code) prisoner Tymoshenko has the right to have a short meeting with relatives and other persons within a month, and a long meeting once in three months,” the ministry’s press service reported.
Over the last-two-and-a-half months (during her stay in hospital), Tymoshenko has received permission for 17 meetings with relatives and other persons (not including meetings with defense lawyers).
“Taking into account these circumstances, as well as the recommendations of doctors, permission for a meeting with the abovementioned persons has not been granted,” the service said.
