| Ukraine's opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, has been imprisoned under what western European countries say are politically motivated charges. Now her daughter, Yevhenia Tymoshenko or Eugenia, has spoken out against the treatment of her mother by the current regime. Yulia's husband, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, recently sought political asylum in the Czech Republic over fears that he would soon be arrested. That leaves only Yevhenia to travel from Kyiv to the prison in Kharkiv where her mother is currently serving a seven-year sentence. Here is what Yevhenia Tymoshenko said during the interview, "When I see her, you know, I have to pick her up, move her, you know, help her to stand up, and it's evident that any slight movement causes very sharp pain. "So she's much more pale, much more weak, because she hasn't been able to get out for fresh air for over three months now. And she's under constant strain because the lights are always in the cell for 24 hours. That the video camera now has been changed to the so-called like telescopic camera which can see what she's writing, because she has to stay in bed lying down and working, and whenever she writes, they can read. "And now the regime is doing everything they can to put this pressure on her to break her morale -- to break her psychologically. Because that's, as we know and she's proven now, that's her strongest point. She's a very strong person and brave. "The repressions have gone so far, and they've crossed the line where my ... |
