Tymoshenko beaten in prison?
Former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter Eugene Carr today told London-based Observer weekly that her mother's health has sharply deteriorated in a detention facility in Kyiv.
Carr stated that bruises and injuries appeared on Tymoshenko's body a week after her detention, but her mother did not want the information to be spread outside the facility.
"She tries to look good not to discourage us, but I see that she is trying to conceal her real condition," said the daughter.
Carr also said that her mother refused to walk in the open air because of pains. She added that the bruises on Tymoshenko's body were resulted by violent treatment.
Earlier Tymoshenko's lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotniuk announced that detainees are kept in improper conditions in Kyiv's detention facility.
Kyiv's detention facility is 'overfilled' now, though that's hardly the word to use. It's meant for 2,500 people, but there are 4,000 detainees there. This is because people are being kept there for no serious reason," he said.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has accused Tymoshenko of abuse of office in concluding the gas contracts with Russia in 2009, which, in its opinion, caused damages exceeding Hr 1.5 billion to the state.
Carr says that the criminal proceedings against her mother aims to intermediate the country's opposition.
