Ukraniam Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been imprisoned on trumped up charges of corruption in an energy deal with Russia and her shy daughter is fighting with everything she has, for her release.  Western diplomats say the imprisonment is politically motivated and is threatening the life of Tymoshenko.

Eugenia Tymoshenko is married to a British rock star and stays completely out of the limelight, and never speaks of her family life.  But suddenly, in defense of her mother whose life is threatened by a baseless imprisonment, Eugenia is taking the international stage:

“While talking to Clinton and Merkel was nerve-racking, Tymoshenko says she

was overwhelmed by their support for her mother, who was jailed on charges of corruption in an energy deal with Russia, a case the West has condemned as politically motivated.

“Women leaders – they feel, I think, special solidarity with her as a woman politician, because of the conditions she is in,” Tymoshenko said. “Of course, they have daughters and children of their own and they know how it feels and their words are always of support.”

As part of her legal defense team, Tymoshenko has enjoyed unique access to her mother, first in a Kiev detention center and now in a remote jail in the eastern city of Kharkiv.

Tymoshenko was moved to a Kharkiv hospital on Wednesday to be treated for a severe spinal condition that has rendered her partially paralyzed and in constant pain. After strong Western pressure, a German neurologist was allowed to supervise Tymoshenko’s treatment because she does not trust government-controlled doctors.

Tymoshenko is now recovering from a nearly three-week-long hunger strike she launched on April 27 to protest an alleged beating by prison guards. She looks emaciated and weak, having lost nearly 10 kilograms (22 pounds). She can only walk with walking aids and is under constant video monitoring, even when she showers, Eugenia said.

Eugenia admits wishing that her mother would stop her political activity to stay free and healthy, but realizes now that she could not give up. Tymoshenko’s husband Oleksandr fled to Prague after authorities also targeted him in an investigation after Tymoshenko was imprisoned. But that was not Tymoshenko’s path, her daughter said.

“It’s something you cannot take away from her it’s her life, so for her even now the opportunity to escape … is unacceptable,” Eugenia Tymoshenko said.”

 

 

 

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, May 12, 2012