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Tymoshenko’s Health Allows Trial Attendance – Judge

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The health of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is good enough to attend the hearings on the 2009 tax evasion case, a judge in Kharkiv district court, Konstantin Sadovsky said on Monday citing the report by the forensic experts.

The health of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is good enough to attend the hearings on the 2009 tax evasion case, a judge in Kharkiv district court, Konstantin Sadovsky said on Monday citing the report by the forensic experts.

“The forensic experts do not see any medical counter indications about Tymoshenko’s participation in the events held outside prison medical facilities,” Sadovsky said.

In late June, Kharkiv ruled that the 51-year-old Tymoshenko who suffers back pains, undergo a medical examination to see whether she can attend further hearings.

Last week Tymoshenko’s lawyer Sergei Vlasenko said that the doctors in the prison postponed treating the back pains because of the unidentified skin disease that affected 50 percent of her body.

“The experts did not provide a positive answer if Tymoshenko can attend the trials,” Vlasenko told the court on Monday during an ongoing trial on tax evasion charges, dismissed by the former premier.

The lawyer said that the forensic experts’ ruling was biased since they are controlled by the government.

According to the German doctors who oversee Tymoshenko’s health, she cannot attend the trials because of her poor health condition, Vlasenko said.

The next hearing is scheduled for July 31.

Tymoshenko was jailed for seven years in October 2011 for overstepping her authority as prime minister in signing a 2009 gas deal with Russia.

The United States, the European Union and Russia have condemned Tymoshenko's conviction.

Tymoshenko has dismissed the charges as political revenge by arch-rival Ukrainian President Yanukovych.

 

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