The Guardian: Yulia Tymoshenko is Europe’s Aung San Suu Kyi
Yulia Tymoshenko, heroine of the "orange revolution" and the only woman ever to achieve prime ministerial office in the former Soviet republics, is not allowed to stand in Ukraine's current national election. For the last 15 months she has been in prison, convicted for actions that would not amount to a crime in any other democracy. She is subjected to the grossest invasion of her privacy (almost every movement she makes is videoed) and constantly defamed by the president and his tame prosecutors. Europe seems to have abandoned her; but tomorrow, at the UN's human rights committee, the UK can bring her situation to the world's attention.