Tymoshenko's condition getting worse - daughter
KHARKIV, Ukraine. Jan 15 (Interfax) - Convicted former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has been in the hospital since May, is continuing a personal "civil disobedience" action that she began last week, her daughter said.
"None of her lawful demands has been satisfied, nothing has changed, and so she is continuing her protest action. She will not end the action before all her demands are satisfied," Yevhenia Tymoshenko told reporters after visiting her mother at Central Clinic Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv.
Yevhenia Tymoshenko said the ex-premier had resumed some of the medical treatment that she suspended when she started her protest. However, Yulia Tymoshenko is still refusing to return to her hospital room, is staying in the corridor all the time and sleeps seated. "Of course, this considerably affects her back, she has worse backaches," Yevhenia said.
Yevhenia said doctors at the Charite clinic in Berlin who oversee her treatment were due to arrive in Kharkiv soon but that it was unclear when exactly they would come.
Yulia Tymoshenko declared her personal "civil disobedience" action in an open letter to President Viktor Yanukovych in which she said she would neither talk to investigators or prosecutors nor go to court voluntarily, and demanded removing video surveillance and a 24-hour guard post from her hospital room.
She threatened to physically resist any attempt to take her to court by force, and warned she would not return to her room before the surveillance equipment and guard post were taken away. She has been living in the corridor ever since she started her protest.
The letter was published by one of her lawyers, Serhiy Vlasenko, on January 8.