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Ukraine PM bars reporters from government meetings after protest

May 22, 2013 10:46
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen local reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a protest on Wednesday over attacks on journalists at a rally. When reporters at the cabinet meeting stepped in front of television cameras and turned their backs, emblazoned with slogans, on Azarov and his colleagues, the prime minister reacted sharply. "What kind of show is this?" he said.

Ukraine PM bars reporters from government meetings after protest

May 22, 2013 08:31
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen local reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a silent protest on Wednesday over physical attacks on journalists at a rally. "What kind of show is this?" Azarov said when reporters who were attending a cabinet meeting stepped in front of television cameras, turning their backs on Azarov and his colleagues.

Ukraine shelves gay rights vote amid protests

Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 09:02
The parliament of ex-Soviet Ukraine on Tuesday indefinitely postponed a vote on a bill that would have barred employers from rejecting workers based on their sexual orientation as hundreds of anti-gay activists protested outside. The European Union-backed legislation had been up for a vote on Tuesday after a strong bid by President Viktor Yanukovych's government -- keen to eventually join the 27-nation bloc -- to get its rights laws in line with Western standards.

AP Interview: Ukraine's foreign minister expects country to sign co-operation agreement with EU

The Canadian PressMay 8, 2013 11:56
Ukraine's foreign minister said he expects his country to sign a co-operation agreement with the European Union later this year despite the EU's objections to the jailing of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Leonid Kozhara said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that the government accepts that the Tymoshenko case is a problem in relations between Ukraine and the EU. But he said a single criminal case shouldn't be an obstacle to Ukraine signing an association agreement with the EU.

Europe court rules Tymoshenko jailing unlawful

Agence France-PresseApril 30, 2013 15:01
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Ukraine's detention of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unlawful, in a decision the opposition leader's camp saw as a key step towards her release. Tymoshenko herself said she hoped the decision by the Strasbourg-based court would put paid to the "dirt and black lies" against her. "The court considered that the detention had been arbitrary and unlawful during the entire period," the judges said.

CORRECTED: Europe court rules Tymoshenko jailing 'unlawful'

Agence France-PresseApril 30, 2013 08:46
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that Ukraine's detention of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unlawful, in a decision the opposition leader's camp saw as a key step towards her release. "The court considered that the detention had been arbitrary and unlawful during the entire period," the judges of the Strasbourg-based court said. The European Union is mulling a trade and association accord with the ex-Soviet republic and has clearly said it wanted Kiev to release the charismatic Tymoshenko.

Tymoshenko's daughter hails EU court ruling as 'first victory'

Agence France-PresseApril 30, 2013 08:16
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter Yevgenia hailed Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that her mother's detention was unlawful as the "first victory" on the way to her release. "Today we are saying that this is the first victory, the first step to her full political rehabilitation and her immediate release," Yevgenia Tymoshenko told reporters in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that the former prime minister's pre-trial detention was unlawful and politically motivated.

EU rights court says Tymoshenko detention unlawful

Agence France-PresseApril 30, 2013 07:01
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that Ukraine's detention of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unlawful but threw out accusations of ill-treatment. "The Court considered that the detention had been arbitrary and unlawful during the entire period," the judges of the Strasbourg-based court said. The judges also found that "the lawfulness of her detention had not been properly reviewed" by the Ukrainian judiciary "and that she had no possibility to seek compensation for her unlawful deprivation of liberty."

European court rules Ukraine's jailing of ex-prime minister Tymoshenko was rights abuse

The Canadian PressApril 30, 2013 06:01
STRASBOURG, France - Europe's human rights court says Ukraine's jailing of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was a politically motivated violation of her rights. A Ukrainian government official stormed out of the courtroom after Tuesday's ruling in a case that has strained the former Soviet state's ties with Europe and the United States. Tymoshenko, an architect of Ukraine's 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution, was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 after being convicted of exceeding her powers as premier while negotiating a gas contract with Russia.

EU puts fresh pressure on Ukraine over Tymoshenko, reforms

April 25, 2013 13:30
KIEV (Reuters) - Foreign ministers of several EU countries gave Ukraine a discouraging report on Thursday on its efforts to deepen ties with the bloc and suggested the jailing of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko remained a serious obstacle. They said agreements on free trade and political association with the European Union were being stymied in particular by cases of "selective justice", a term used by the West to describe the prosecution of rival politicians, including former prime minister Tymoshenko, under President Viktor Yanukovich.
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