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Leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union Yulia Tymoshenko has called for establishing a system of jury trial in order to oppose political repression.

"We want to oppose political repressions and puppet judges through engaging people into the administration of justice through jury trials," she wrote on Twitter on Monday night.

Tymoshenko also quoted a bill on jury system in Ukraine drafted by MP Serhiy Vlasenko (the BYT-Batkivschyna faction) and MP Hennadiy Moskal (Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense faction).