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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Saturday, February 22, 2014

War Zone in Kiev - Yulia Tymoshenko to be Freed



Freedom!
Jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to
be freed by the government.


Hours after opposition leaders and the Ukrainian president signed a deal aimed at ending month-long deadly clashes, the country’s parliament voted to free Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister jailed for more than two years for what supporters say are politically tainted charges.

Friday’s agreement calls for an early election, a new constitution and a new unity government.


Ukraine's newly empowered Verhovna Rada parliament responded to the deal quickly, firing the country's despised interior minister Vitali Zakharchenko, who is widely blamed for ordering police violence, including the snipers who killed scores of protesters Thursday in central Kiev reports Fox News.

The next order of business was Tymoshenko.

``We are insisting that there is a vote on a bill which would free Tymoshenko,'' former economy minister Arseny Yatsenyuk told parliament, Reuters reported. Yatsenyuk is  the new head of Tymoshenko’s Bativshchyna (Fatherland) party since she was jailed.

Tymoshenko-- a long-standing rival of President Viktor Yanukovich-- was narrowly defeated by him in 2010 in a run-off for the presidency. She received a 7-year prison sentence in 2011 for abuse of office linked to a gas deal she brokered with Russia as prime minister, after a trial the European Union denounced as political.

Legislators voted 310-54 Friday to decriminalize the count under which she was imprisoned, meaning that she is no longer guilty of a criminal offense.

 "Free Yulia! Free Yulia!" legislators chanted after the vote.

It's not immediately clear when she might be released from the jail in the eastern city of Kharkiv.


Brutal Video
Shows all-out street war in Kiev,
death toll rises in fresh clashes.




War Zone in Kiev
Violence rages as protesters throw petrol bombs at police






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