Prosecutor's office holding inquiry into fighting in Rada's session hall - Dec. 17, 2010

Prosecutor’s office holding inquiry into fighting in Rada’s session hall

Published Dec. 17, 2010 at 11:18 am

Doctors examine opposition lawmaker, Yury Gnatkevich, seen inside the ambulance car, after he was injured in a parliament fighting between the ruling pro-presidential party and bloc of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, in Kiev, Ukraine, late Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Tymoshenko's lawmakers demanded to stop what they called political repression against their leader. In Thursday fighting, a few Tymoshenko's lawmakers have been hospitalized with severe injures. On Wednesday, Ukraine's Prosecutor General launched a criminal case against Tymoshenko accusing her of abuse of power

Pechersky District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv is holding an inquiry into the December 16 brawl in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada.

The materials of the checks have been submitted to the District Prosecutor’s Office, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.

So far, the Prosecutor General’s Office haven’t received any appeals from lawmakers, the press service said.

As reported, on Thursday a fight broke out between Ukrainian parliament deputies representing the ruling Party of Regions with the opposition deputies of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction who had disrupted the day’s session of the legislature in protest at criminal action against their leader, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Two members of the BYuT-Batkivschyna faction was injured and hospitalized. After the verbal wrangles, the BYT- Batkivschyna members left the session hall.

Members of the Party of Region spent the night in the parliament’s hall.