Yevhenia Carr, the daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said she is concerned that her mother's health may deteriorate if she is "put behind bars for a long time."
"Our team will do everything possible to avoid a politically motivated sentence […] Such a ruling will mean that she [Tymoshenko] will be deprived of the right to take part in political processes in Ukraine and in elections. And of course, her physical condition is not improving," Carr said in her first interview since the beginning of the Yulia Tymoshenko trial (the interview was published in the September 15th edition of The Financial Times).
Carr, who was educated in the UK, said the living conditions in the prison where Yulia Tymoshenko is now are "horrible," but the prison staff are treating her well.
"Her cell looks like a stone cave. Everything is made of stone, there is only a small window with bars on it. There are no appliances for normal human existence," Carr said.
