Vlasenko says he wasn't allowed to see Tymoshenko

15:30, 01.11.2012 1 min read

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's defense lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko has said that he was unjustifiably refuse permission to meet with his client.

"I, as a defense lawyer, was not allowed to see Yulia Tymoshenko today, explaining that a short-term meeting was allegedly scheduled for her. At my request to name the law that restricts a defense lawyer's right to hold meetings, of course, I did not receive an answer, as usual," Vlasenko told journalists outside Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv on Thursday.

The lawyer also confirmed that the leaders of the united opposition, Oleksandr Turchynov, Arseniy Yatseniuk, and Hryhoriy Nemyria, were admitted to the ninth floor of the hospital, where the ex-premier's ward is located. At the same time, he could not say whether they had managed to meet with Tymoshenko.