12:32 16.11.2013

Tymoshenko complains to prosecutor's office about disrupted meetings, says defense counsel

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Tymoshenko complains to prosecutor's office about disrupted meetings, says defense counsel

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has appealed to Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office in connection with the disruption of her short meetings with Arseniy Yatseniuk, Iryna and Yuriy Lutsenko, as well as Vice-President of the European People's Party MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, the ex-premier's defense counsel, Mykola Tytarenko, has said.

"As regards the non-admission of Arseniy Petrovych [Yatseniuk] and [Yuriy and Iryna] Lutsenko, and a representative of the European Parliament, she prepared and filed a statement about the misconduct by Kolpaschykov (Head of Kachanivska penal colony Ihor Kolpaschykov)," Tytarenko told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday after a meeting with Yulia Tymoshenko.

The lawyer said the statement of the State Penitentiary Service that the reason for the cancellation of the meeting was an acute respiratory disease of his client was not true.

He also said that Tymoshenko hoped that she would be given an opportunity to have this meeting next week.

As reported, Leader of the Batkivschyna faction Arseniy Yatseniuk, and Irina and Yuriy Lutsenko, who arrived in Kharkiv on Friday morning for a short meeting with Tymoshenko, were not allowed to see her.

According to the prison service, the former prime minister had an acute respiratory viral infection and visits to her were limited to prevent possible complications.

However, Tymoshenko's daughter Yevhenia and defense counsel Serhiy Vlasenko said that they visited the ex-premier the previous day and that there were no signs that she had a cold.

Batkivschyna Party MP Arsen Avakov said that Vice-President of the European People's Party (EPP), MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was to visit the former prime minister in hospital on Friday, but the meeting was canceled.

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