Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, confined a seven-year book afterwards aftermost year's confidence on a allegation of corruption of authority, has been on a ache bang for four canicule because she was baffled benumbed in bastille aftermost week, she said Tuesday.
But the prosecutor said Tuesday that his appointment anon advised Tymoshenko's affirmation and didn't acquisition affidavit to actualize her allegations.
A medical able was sent, but Tymoshenko banned an examination, said Gennady Tyurin, accepted prosecutor of Kharkiv region.He said he has beneath to accessible a bent case.
"The analysis is over," Tyurin said.
Last October, a Ukrainian court found Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of authority for signing gas contracts with Russia and sentenced her to the seven-year prison term.
Prior to the alleged beating, Tymoshenko was discussing with officials a transfer Monday to a hospital for health reasons, she said.But on Friday evening, her cell mate left the cell, and then "three sturdy men" entered, threw a bed sheet over her, dragged her off the bed and applied "brutal force," she said in a statement.
"In pain and despair, I started to defend myself as I could and got a strong blow in my stomach through the bed sheet," she said in a statement.
Tymoshenko was dragged "into the street," she said. "I thought these were the last minutes of my life. In unbearable pain and fear I started to cry and call out for help, but no help came."
She fell unconscious, and when she came to, she was in a hospital ward, she said.
Tymoshenko went on her ache bang the day afterwards the beating, Saturday, she said.
She chock-full demography aliment "to draw absorption of the autonomous apple to things accident in the centermost of Europe, in the country called Ukraine," she said.
Tymoshenko answerable that "the admiral of Ukraine is steadily and pedantically architecture a absorption affected of abandon and abridgement of rights."
She is allurement for a "public all-embracing investigation" into the administering of Admiral Viktor Yanukovych and added, "we charge do aggregate accessible to abolish the Yanukovych regime."
In April 2011, the Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office opened a criminal case charging Tymoshenko with signing overpriced gas deals with Russian energy provider Gazprom that inflicted damages to the country amounting to more than 1.5 billion hryvnas (almost $190 million at the current exchange rate) and that Tymoshenko had allegedly no right to sign.
The court ruled Tymoshenko must repay the money, and she is banned from holding public office for three years.
Tymoshenko narrowly lost to Yanukovych in a presidential election in February 2010, and she became his fiercest opponent.
She has repeatedly brushed off all charges against her as political, calling the trial a "farce" and naming the judge a "stooge of Yanukovych's administration," appointed to "fabricate" the case.
Amnesty International has slammed the verdict as "politically motivated" and called for the release of Tymoshenko, who was prime minister from January to September 2005 and December 2007 to March 2010.
