The agency overseeing Ukraine's prison network has denied a claim by convicted former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko that the electromagnetic field (EMF) level in her hospital room keeps rising.
The EMF level in her room at the hospital in Kharkiv is normal, the State Penitentiary Service claimed in a statement on Monday. On Sunday, Tymoshenko sent a letter to the administration of the Kachanivska Penal Colony in Kharkiv, where she is serving her seven-year term, in which she alleged that her EMF detector had begun to hourly show ever higher EMF levels and demanded being moved to another room.
“The convict paid no attention to oral explanations by doctors that this was impossible as she was at a hospital, a facility where measurements of that kind are conducted on a permanent basis,” the statement said.
At the request of the Kachanivska colony’s administration, sanitary inspectors checked the ex-prime minister’s room on Monday. “All the electromagnetic levels are normal. The findings have been reported to the convict. A report has been written,” the prison service said.
The statement said that the radiation, EMF, humidity, noise and lighting levels and drinking water quality are regularly tested at the hospital, including in Tymoshenko’s room, and that no departure from the norm had ever been registered.
