‘Strasbourg backs Yulia’

Published on 2 May 2013 at 09:46

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Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested unlawfully and for political reasons, according to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on April 30.

Tymoshenko was detained in 2011 and jailed for seven years for “abuse of office” in relation to her role in signing a gas deal with Russia. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, “the unprecedented ruling of the Strasbourg judges, who previously avoided taking such an explicit position in political disputes, leaves Kiev with little room for manoeuvre.

Leaving Tymoshenko in jail will destroy the Ukraine’s hopes of signing an EU association agreement that has been initially scheduled for the autumn in Vilinius”.

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