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Kyiv, March 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's lawyer Mykola Yeremenko filed a complaint with Kyiv's Pechersky District Court against the Prosecutor General's Office's inaction "in the issue of torture against Tymoshenko."

"The prosecutors have evaded their obligation stipulated by Article 97 of the Ukrainian Criminal Procedure Code to take all possible measures to stop a crime, that is, the torturing of Yulia Tymoshenko," the Batkivschyna Party quoted Yeremenko as saying on Friday.

"At the same time, government officials actively prevented Yulia Tymoshenko’s medical examination on February 14-16 by blackmailing foreign medics who examined her and found a progressive disease in her and intimidating them with invented criminal liability," Yeremenko said.

The ex-premier’s daughter, Yevheniya Tymoshenko, said she was outraged that her mother has been denied visits of human rights activists, foreign politicians and often even lawyers.

"I am outraged to see doctors, who have taken the Hippocratic Oath, forge my mother’s diagnosis and not provide her with medical aid. Before the foreign doctors’ visit, they did not even administer painkillers to her, despite an acute pain," Yevheniya Tymoshenko said.

Yeremenko pointed out in this context that the Ukrainian law considers violation of the Hippocratic Oath a crime.

It was reported earlier that Yevheniya Tymoshenko and Yeremenko had asked the Prosecutor General’s Office on February 10 to open a criminal investigation into the alleged use of torture against Yulia Tymoshenko.