Tymoshenko's hunger strike to go on: daughter
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May 7, 2012, Monday
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JAILED Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko will press on with her hunger strike against her treatment, her daughter told an Austrian newspaper.
Tymoshenko, 51, has got an "enormous" psychological boost from calls for politicians to boycott June's European soccer championships in Ukraine, which is co-hosting the event with Poland, Oesterreich quoted Yevgenia Tymoshenko as saying.
Asked in the interview, published yesterday, if Tymoshenko would continue the hunger strike she began on April 20, the daughter said: "Yes, that is what she plans. She will continue her protest - with all the consequences - until decisions have been made. This is her intention and that is why I am afraid. I really fear for my mother's life."
Tymoshenko, the main rival of President Viktor Yanukovich, was sentenced to seven years in prison last October for abuse of office.
She is now in a prison in Kharkiv, one of the tournament venues. She went on hunger strike in protest at what she said was an assault by prison guards, a charge denied by the prison administration.
Tymoshenko, 51, has got an "enormous" psychological boost from calls for politicians to boycott June's European soccer championships in Ukraine, which is co-hosting the event with Poland, Oesterreich quoted Yevgenia Tymoshenko as saying.
Asked in the interview, published yesterday, if Tymoshenko would continue the hunger strike she began on April 20, the daughter said: "Yes, that is what she plans. She will continue her protest - with all the consequences - until decisions have been made. This is her intention and that is why I am afraid. I really fear for my mother's life."
Tymoshenko, the main rival of President Viktor Yanukovich, was sentenced to seven years in prison last October for abuse of office.
She is now in a prison in Kharkiv, one of the tournament venues. She went on hunger strike in protest at what she said was an assault by prison guards, a charge denied by the prison administration.
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