MOSCOW - In a report commissioned by the government of Ukraine, a team of American lawyers has concluded that important legal rights of the jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, were violated during her trial last year on charges of abusing her official power, and that she was wrongly imprisoned even before her conviction and sentencing.
The lawyers, led by President Obama’s former White House counsel,
Gregory B. Craig, concluded that Ms. Tymoshenko was denied legal counsel
at “critical stages” of her trial and that at other times her lawyers
were wrongly barred from calling relevant witnesses.
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