Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is to be allowed to have a short meeting with female MPs from the opposition, the press office of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine reported on Tuesday.

The meeting will be held after the rehabilitation procedures of Tymoshenko that she resumed on Tuesday.

The press service said that the State Penitentiary Service is "indignant at the behavior of Ukrainian MPs from the opposition, who, yesterday, on January 14, at Ukrzaliznytsia's Central Clinical Hospital, demonstrated their behavior and attitude to the staff of the hospital and the penal colony, which gives no honor to their mandates and to themselves as individuals."

The service noted said none of employees of the penitentiary service was hiding anything from the MPs. The MPs themselves received comprehensive information about the conditions of the ex-premier's detention and repeatedly talked to the chief of the Kachanivska penal colony.

Chief of Kachanivska Penal Colony No. 54 Ihor Kolpaschykov provided a written response and exhaustive verbal explanations to Tymoshenko regarding the legality of the installation of video cameras.

The press service said that only three cameras had been installed in Tymoshenko's ward.

As reported, the State Penitentiary Service repeatedly said that video surveillance of the former premier was being conducted exclusively within the law, and that the cameras had been installed only in her hospital room and in the hallway. In addition, the service said that only women were working on the video surveillance monitors and in Tymoshenko's ward

On January 8, Tymoshenko declared a campaign of civil disobedience and announced this in an open letter that was read aloud by her defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko.

The former prime minister said that she refused to recognize the prosecutors and investigators involved in her case and was not going to talk to them anymore. Tymoshenko also said she would not go to court voluntarily, and should they try to bring her to court by force, she would offer every resistance she could. The ex-premier also refused to go back to her hospital ward unless video surveillance and the guard are removed.

On January 11, women from the opposition factions of the Verkhovna Rada demanded permission to meet with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and said they wanted Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka be invited to parliament to brief MPs on the situation with violations of women's rights in Ukraine.

In addition, the women from the parliamentary opposition demand that former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko be provided with an opportunity to undergo treatment at an independent clinic.

"Should they ignore [these demands], we promise to organize a women's revolt," Batkivschyna MP Oleksandra Kuzhel said.