Strasbourg – The European Parliament (EP) has called on the Ukrainian authorities to end selective justice and find a solution in the situation with the criminal cases against former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko.
“[The EP] makes a strong appeal to the Ukrainian authorities to find, together with the European Parliament’s envoys, Aleksander Kwasniewski and Pat Cox, a reasonable and just solution to the Tymoshenko case; and urges the Ukrainian government to respect and implement the final decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on the ongoing case of Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko,” reads the resolution adopted by the EP in Strasbourg on Thursday.
“[The EP] calls on Ukraine to end the selective application of justice in Ukraine at all levels of government and to make it possible for opposition parties to participate in political life on the basis of a level playing field; calls on the authorities, in this context, to free and rehabilitate politically persecuted opponents, including Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Lutsenko and others,” reads the document.
