Eugenia Tymoshenko in Paris

18^th June 2012

On 15th June the Reception Centre for the Foreign Press in Paris invited Eugenia Karr-Tymoshenko, daughter of the Ukrainian oppositon leader, Yulia Tymoshenko to speak on the "Tymoshenko Affair and the Euro 2012". She said that "Ukraine was a dictatorship" because it falsified and filtered the information delivered to the people as well as that given to the international community. Reviewing her mother's situation and that of all imprisoned political opponents she explained that Ukraine did not implement the idea "of innocent before proven guilty" and that 99% of trials had already been decided before they had even started. In her opinion the present President Viktor Yanukovych wants to be a "Czar". Finally she thanked the EU for its efforts, such as the boycott of the Euro 2012, the regular calls made to the Ukrainian authorities regarding the need to release prisoners and the dispatch of two observers to her mother's appeal trial which will begin on 26th June.

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