Yulia Tymoshenko on hunger strike in Ukraine prison

“The person got packed, dressed and then lied down on the bed and said ‘I
will not go anywhere’,” Kharkiv regional prosecutor Henadiy Tyurin told
reporters in remarks confirmed by his office. “According to the law …
the prison service has the right to use physical measures: she was picked
up, carried to the car and taken to the hospital.”

Prison officials declined immediate comment.

Tymoshenko, 51, the country’s top opposition leader is serving a seven-year
prison term on charges of abusing her powers during gas negotiations with
Russia. The West has strongly condemned the verdict as politically motivated
and threatened to freeze co-operation with Ukraine.

Tymoshenko denies the charges and argues they, and others, are part of a
campaign by her longtime foe President Viktor Yanukovych to bar her from
politics. Yanukovych narrowly defeated her in the 2010 presidential race.

Yanukovych denies the allegations and says his government is merely fighting
corruption.

Source: AP

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