Some 35 members of the opposition kept blocking the tribune and the presidium of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, on Friday, April 27.
An Interfax-Ukraine reported said that MPs from the BYT-Batkivschyna and Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense factions surrounded the tribune and the presidium on Friday, before the start of the parliament’s plenary sitting.
The deputies hang a poster reading "Yulia Tymoshenko on Hunger Strike for Eights Day."
As reported, the opposition has been blocking work of the parliament since Tuesday, April 24 following the publishing of reports on ill-treatment of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko in the Kachanivska penal colony.
The MPs demand that the employees of the penitentiary service that beat Tymoshenko to hold criminal responsibility. They also demand the ex-premier to receive proper medical treatment.
