The European Court of Human Rights will be delivering a Chamber judgment in the case of Tymoshenko v. Ukraine at a public hearing in Strasbourg on Tuesday 30 April 2013 at 10.30 a.m.
 

The case concerns complaints related to the detention of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister.
 

Yuliya Tymoshenko is the leader of Batkivshchyna, one of the strongest opposition parties in Ukraine, and of Yuliya Tymoshenko’s Bloc. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005 and between December 2007 and March 2010. In April 2011, criminal proceedings were brought against her for allegedly making an illegal order for the signing of a contract concerning gas imports. On 11 October 2011, she was convicted as charged, including of abuse of power, and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and a three-year ban on holding public office.

During the criminal proceedings, on 5 August 2011, the trial court ordered Ms Tymoshenko’s detention on remand. She was placed in the pre-trial detention facility in Kyiv (SIZO no. 13), where she remained until 30 December 2011. She was then transferred to the Kachanivska Correctional Colony in Kharkiv to serve her prison sentence. Suffering from numerous health problems, Ms Tymoshenko alleges that the detention conditions in both facilities were inadequate and that she did not receive appropriate medical treatment. (more...)
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