le=”text-align: justify; “>A court in Ukraine on Saturday adjourned the tax evasion trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko until May 21 due to the ill health of the opposition leader who is already in prison on an abuse-of-office conviction condemned by the West, Reuters reports.
Judge Kostyantyn Sadovsky told the court in the city of Kharkiv it would be impossible to conduct hearings in the absence of Tymoshenko, who says she is suffering from chronic back pain.
The European Union saw Tymoshenko’s jailing last October as politically motivated and has said its members would not ratify an association agreement with the former Soviet republic while she is in prison.
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