Out of jail to treat bad back
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April 3, 2012, Tuesday
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JAILED former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko will be allowed to leave prison to be treated for a back condition at a local hospital, prosecutors said yesterday.
The 51-year-old opposition leader is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted in October of abusing her office while negotiating a natural gas supply contract with Russia in 2009. The case has strained Ukraine's ties with the West, which condemned it as politically motivated. Tymoshenko has accused President Viktor Yanukovych, her longtime rival, of jailing her to bar her from politics.
German doctors who examined her last month concluded that she suffers from intense pain and needs urgent treatment in a specialized clinic. Tymoshenko's family said she suffers from a herniated disc.
Prosecutors' spokesman Yuri Boichenko said yesterday that Tymoshenko will be treated at a specialized medical clinic in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv, where she is imprisoned.
The statement came days after the German government offered to treat Tymoshenko in Germany and said it was in talks with Ukrainian authorities on making that possible.
The 51-year-old opposition leader is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted in October of abusing her office while negotiating a natural gas supply contract with Russia in 2009. The case has strained Ukraine's ties with the West, which condemned it as politically motivated. Tymoshenko has accused President Viktor Yanukovych, her longtime rival, of jailing her to bar her from politics.
German doctors who examined her last month concluded that she suffers from intense pain and needs urgent treatment in a specialized clinic. Tymoshenko's family said she suffers from a herniated disc.
Prosecutors' spokesman Yuri Boichenko said yesterday that Tymoshenko will be treated at a specialized medical clinic in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv, where she is imprisoned.
The statement came days after the German government offered to treat Tymoshenko in Germany and said it was in talks with Ukrainian authorities on making that possible.
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