The Batkivschyna party has said that the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office has resorted to ungrounded threats of arrest against their leader and ex-Premier of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko.
"On the one hand, they [the Prosecutor General’s Office] are unable to prove any, even the slightest guilt of Tymoshenko in the fabricated pseudo criminal cases against her. On the other, they are in panicked fear of [President Viktor] Yanukovych, because they are unable to execute his order: to convict Yulia Tymoshenko as soon as possible, in order to prevent her participation in the parliamentary elections of 2012," the party said in a statement posted on its Web site in response to the warning by Deputy Procurator General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin that the pre-trial restrictions against Tymoshenko may be toughened and changed to arrest.
The party also said that "… Yanukovych’s regime has consistently pursued a policy of destroying the opposition in Ukraine."
