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Parliament again votes down proposal to decriminalize 'Tymoshenko article'

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Feb. 8, 2012, 2:05 p.m. | Politics — by Interfax-Ukraine

Parliament has voted down a bill on decriminalizing Article 365 – the one under which former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to imprisonment.
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The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has voted down a bill on decriminalizing Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – the one under which former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to imprisonment. A total of 159 out of 434 MPs registered in the session hall on Wednesday supported the bill on amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine to bring the country's criminal legislation in compliance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

The ex-premier was sentenced to seven years in prison under Article 365 of the Criminal Code on abuse of office charges for signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009.

A Ukrainian law decriminalizing a number of articles of the Criminal Code concerning economic crimes came into force on Jan. 17, 2012.

The law excluded criminal liability for committing certain unlawful actions, in particular, for the concealment of currency earnings.

At the same time, the parliamentary majority rejected an opposition initiative to decriminalize the article under which Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in jail.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych to consider all possible means to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government and also to enable them to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

PACE made this appeal in the resolution on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine adopted on Jan. 26.

The assembly also called on the Ukrainian authorities "to promptly change these two articles [under which Tymoshenko was convicted], in line with the standards of the Council of Europe" and to drop charges against former government officials.




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Guy De Smet Feb. 8, 2012, 2:14 p.m.    

SHAME on YOU !

You are the name "parliament" unworthy...

One comfort we all have :

such regimes always lose in the end, as history shows !

and to the "no-voters" : one day this all comes back into your faces !

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Khvylia Feb. 8, 2012, 2:46 p.m.    

The answer from the Party of Regions is very clear. NO to human rights. NO to the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine. NO to the reform of the judicial system in Ukraine. NO to PACE. NO to the EU. NO to the IMF. NO to foreign investment (except Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan). YES to sanctions. This poses a new question. Will the POR Oligarchs and their dependents have enough slop in their trough without being totally dependent on Tsar Putin and Company???

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AL BALA Feb. 8, 2012, 3:19 p.m.    

434 MPs registered in the session hall ? ? ? ? ? ?

Gee ? I wonder how many were Physically there ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Stan Papuse Feb. 8, 2012, 8:32 p.m.    

Nice one. Since when is there a parliament in Ukrainian SSR? Was there any democratic excercise attempt over there, apart of orange revolution? There's only &quot;The Power&quot; there. And the rest, the majority who haven't got the balls to tear down the small bunch of fat half-literates who drives them upon their mood. Seems that Ukrainians feel the every day need and pleasure to be sodomised by this &quot;boys&quot;.

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Stan Papuse Feb. 8, 2012, 8:38 p.m.    

Get your country and lives back guys. They belong to you. And not to this fat gang playing Masters and Servants.

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AL BALA Feb. 8, 2012, 9:36 p.m.    

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