A group of Ukrainian people's deputies and public activists will hand over a letter to the German Embassy in Kyiv on Tuesday afternoon, asking not to issue visas to the judges "involved in the reprisal against the opposition."
"In particular, the request not to issue visas concerns the judges at the Pechersky District and Appeals Courts of the city of Kyiv," the Batkivschyna Party said.
Earlier the opposition made a similar request to the United States Embassy in Ukraine, based in Kyiv.
The Pechersky District Court is hearing the gas case against Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister and Batkivschyna leader Yulia Tymoshenko, the malfeasance cases against former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and the cases against other officials from the former Ukrainian government.
On Aug. 5, Tymoshenko was arrested at a session over the gas case. Judge Rodion Kireyev rejected several petitions from her defense teams, asking to release her under surety.
On Aug. 12, the Appeals Court in Kyiv chose not to examine the appeal from Tymoshenko’s lawyers against the August 5 decision by the Pechersky District Court to replace her travel restrictions with the arrest.
The Appeals Court stated that under the Criminal Procedural Code, a decision changing bail to remand cannot be appealed.
