Former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has complained that for 20 days he has not been undergoing any of the medical procedures prescribed by his medical commission.

"I'm protesting against the blocking of my medical treatment. Since the last visit of the medical commission on November 8, 2012 I have not received any pills of those prescribed to me by experts from the Health Ministry, for 20 days!" reads the ex-minister's statement dated November 28 posted on the Web site of the People's Self-Defense Party. Lutsenko addressed the statement to the head of the Mena Penal Colony.

According to the ex-minister, the situation shows that somebody is consciously trying to disable him, which is "a violent infringement of morals and the law."

Kyiv's Pechersky District Court found Lutsenko guilty of a number of counts of abuse of office and sentenced him to four years in prison on February 27, 2012. Lutsenko was charged with interfering in an investigative case concerning Valentyn Davydenko, the driver of former SBU First Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk, as part of an investigation into the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko on August 17, 2012 by Pechersky Court. The court sentenced Lutsenko to two years in prison.

On August 31, 2012, the ex-minister was transferred to the Mena Penal Colony in Chernihiv region.

The medical commission examined Lutsenko on November 8 and came to a conclusion that there was no reason for the ex-minister's hospitalization.

Meanwhile, his wife and defender, Iryna Lutsenko, stated that during the examination the doctors discovered that the ex-minister has heart disease.

On November 15, Lutsenko refused from an examination with the help of medical equipment at Chernihiv Regional Clinical Hospital.

On Thursday, Kyiv Court of Appeals will read aloud the full text of its verdict in the case on the appeal of Lutsenko and his defense team against the ruling on the second criminal case against him, under which he was sentenced to two years in prison.