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Representatives of the non-governmental organization Freedom House have arrived at the Kachanivska penal colony, where former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko is serving her sentence.

As reported by an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, the delegation arrived at the prison in a Hyundai minibus and did not stop to talk with the media.

Acting Head of Kharkiv Regional Department of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine Yevhen Barash said in a phone conversation that the premises for the meeting between Tymoshenko and the Freedom House representatives were to be selected as soon as the delegation arrives.

A rally to support Tymoshenko is going on outside the prison.