Vitali Klitschko not allowed to meet with Lutsenko
The leadership of the Mena penal colony (Chernihiv region) has not allowed UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko to meet with imprisoned former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko on Wednesday.
“We agreed with Yuriy [Lutsenko] after a meeting of the Court of Appeals [in Kyiv] last week that I would visit him. We set the date of November 28. I bought some books and went to Chernihiv. But I failed to see Lutsenko. The administration of the colony said that Lutsenko is allowed to have one meeting per month, and this quota, they say, was used by the US ambassador who visited Yuriy two days ago,” the party’s press service quoted him as saying on Wednesday.
Klitschko expressed hope that he would be able to meet and talk with Lutsenko in December.
Earlier, the press office of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine reported that Lutsenko would be able to use his right to have a short meeting no earlier than December 21.
The press office said that under the current legislation, every prisoner is entitled to a short meeting with relatives and other persons once a month. Lutsenko used this right in November after meeting with Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft on November 26.