Monday 30 April 2012

On April 27, 2012 people saw at first Yuliya Tymoshenko's look in the prison thanks to the photos, made by parliament's human rights representative Nina Karpachova in Kachanivka prison on April 25, 2012 and published on "Batkivshchyna" party' site and in the different newspapers. These photos show the bruises on the arms and stomach of Tymoshenko and are the evidences of Tymoshenko statement about her beating in the prison. Thus Yuliya Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister and the main rival of present Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at the presidential elections in February of 2010, wrote a statement about her beating by jail's guards and her moving by force from Kachanivka jail to a hospital in Kharkiv. This Tymoshenko statement was read by her lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko and was published on "Batkivshchyna" site on April 24, 2012. Yuliya Tymoshenko said in the statement that on April 20 in the evening three prison's guards went in the cell, took out her cell's mate, put bed sheet on Tymoshenko and began to pull her off the bed, using brutal force. But ex-Prime Minister began to defend herself and said about her disagreement to be moved into a hospital, and then one of the guards beat her once in the stomach through the bed sheet, after what they pulled her off the bed and using such brutal methods she was moved to a hospital. Y. Tymoshenko refused from the treatment in the hospital and was removed again in the jail on April 22. She descibed that all situation in her statement and wrote about bruises on her arms and stomach, got after violent transfering from the jail to a hospital, and she also started hunger strike since April 20 as her protest against physical violence and breach her human rights in the prison and against present Ukrainian power in general. Nina Karpachova also said about bad health and bruises on Tymoshenko's body after visiting her in the prison on April 25. So when are such conditions of staying in the prison for such famous politician like Tymoshenko, how can be the conditions of staying there for simple Ukrainians?
Several weeks ago Ukrainian TV-channel TVі (ТВі in Ukrainian) demonstrated a documentary film and special journalistic report of Kostyantyn Usov, TVi Kyiv journalist, about Lukyanivka investigatory isolation ward in Kyiv (Ukrainian film's name is "Лук'янівка.Тюрма №1", the name of this film with English subtitles is "Lukyanivka. Prison №1"). In Ukraine people often wait judge's verdict many time in the investigatory isolation wards, being not found guilty or innocent yet, and this documentary film shows that awful conditions, in which people stay there.
What can I say something else? Ukraine very needs a great reform in the legal sphere to be real democratic state.

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Main task for Ukrainian opposition

Main task for Ukrainian oppositional politicians is the achievement of the freedom for Yuliya Tymoshenko and others, also oppositional politicians, and the possibility of their participation in the next parliamentary elections in September, 2012. But instead of it Ukrainian people can see on the TV and can read in the newspapers about different versions of the oppositional parties' unities, about discussions who will be number 1, 2, 3 etc. in its elective list. So these oppositional politicians (or so-called oppositional?) don't try to achieve the freedom for their colleagues, though all oppositional politicians must achieve it every day, using their deputies' and political rights and possibilities, if they really want to be strong opposition in Ukraine. But oppositional politicians (who are free and aren't in the prisons!) think about parliamentary elections and about their own participation in the elections. Some politicians say that they will achieve to free Tymoshenko after parliamentary elections, when they will become deputies and will have oppositional majority in the parliament. But why after elections and not now, when they are also deputies? Then deputies from Tymoshenko's party "Batkivshchyna" say about number 1 of Y.Tymoshenko in their elective list. But Yuliya Tymoshenko is in the prison now and according to Ukrainian Constitution she can't take part in any elections till she is in the prison and till she is admitted guilty in the crime. So Y. Tymoshenko must be free to take part in the elections! If these oppositional leaders will be only in the elective list, but indeed they will be in the jail, it will look like some cynical farse of other politicians.If politicians are really oppositional, they must fight for their oppositional colleagues, who are in the jail now. How can some oppositional politicians think only about their own next five years of the deputy's being in the parliament, while some their oppositional colleagues are in the prison or abroad, getting political asylum there? How can some oppositional politicians say about political repressions of the present Ukrainian power and also prepare to take part in the parliamentary elections in the same time, while ex-Prime Minister Tymoshenko and another oppositional politicians are in the jail? Is this different opposition toward present power in Ukraine or what?