Ukraine’s Tymoshenko said to be “critical” as trial adjourned
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 18, 2013 22:50
Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko’s trial for tax evasion was adjourned again on Friday as her defense counsel warned that her declining health had slumped to a “critical” level.
The former prime minister, the main opponent of President Viktor Yanukovich, was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 on abuse-of-office charges.
But hospital treatment for back trouble has meant a second trial for alleged tax evasion and embezzlement – which she and West governments also denounce as politically motivated – has been repeatedly adjourned.
When the court announced another adjournment on Friday until February 12, a group of her supporters called out: “Shame on the torturers!”
On January 8, the 52-year-old politician announced she was launching a disobedience campaign in protest at measures such as the installation of video cameras in her hospital quarters. She has refused to return to her hospital bed and has been sleeping in a chair in the hospital corridor, her supporters say.
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