Tymoshenko against boycott
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Kyiv (dpa) – She had called the boycott, supported by several western politicians, a “bad idea,” according to Jacek Protasiewicz, who visited her in a hospital in Kharkiv where she is being treated for back pain under the supervision of a German doctor.
“She‘s asking them not to do it,” said Protasiewicz, as quoted by Ukrainian media. The health of Tymoshenko, 51, was poor, he added. “You sense that she is mentally under terrible pressure,” he said.
Several high-level EU politicians have already declined to attend the football tournament, to be jointly hosted from next month by Poland and Ukraine, in protest at Kyiv‘s treatment of the opposition leader.
The tournament starts in Warsaw on June 8, and its final match is to be played in Kyiv on July 1. The critics contend she was unfairly convicted and has possibly been mistreated in prison. A Kyiv court in October sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison on abuse of office charges connected to a natural gas deal signed with Russia when she was in office. She has denied all wrongdoing.
A second trial is under way and is set to resume Monday, but analysts said the hearing may be adjourned because of her treatment. She faces up to 12 further years in prison for alleged misappropriation and tax evasion in the 1990s.
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