Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland has again expressed his concerns over the case of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, although Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko has assured him that she is being held in the best detention conditions in Ukraine.
The sides discussed this issue at a meeting in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
"We talked about the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, which causes us concern. The minister assured me that [although] her disease is not being treated, she [is being held] in the best conditions that exist in Ukraine," Jagland said.
Hryschenko, in turn, said that Tymoshenko "was offered the best medical treatment, but she has refused, for reasons that only she can explain."
On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.
Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the arrest of Tymoshenko under the UESU case.
Because of this, Tymoshenko is being held in the pretrial detention center of the Kachanivska colony in Kharkiv and is not involved in community work.
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