Tymoshenko's daughter casts her ballot for her mother's and political prisoners' freedom
Yevhenia Tymoshenko, the daughter of Ukraine's ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, cast her ballot at 10 a.m. in Dnipropetrovsk in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
"I am casting my vote for my mother's freedom, for the freedom of political prisoners and for justice, and in hope that we will not find ourselves behind barbed wire tomorrow," she told reporters. She also said that she had followed her mother's call "to come to polling stations in order not to allow the dictatorship to win."
She said she could not get in touch with her mother by telephone on October 28. "Yulia Tymoshenko has been denied access to telephone and other means of communication. This is illegal. Others do have access to telephone communication," she said.
Yevhenia Tymoshenko said that her father Oleksandr Tymoshenko was granted political refuge in the Czech Republic. "I don't think people who have been granted political refuge will cast their votes."
She said she used to go to elections jointly with her father and mother previously.
A court in Kyiv sentenced Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail on October 11 2011 for exceeding her authority while negotiating gas contracts with Russia in 2009.
She is serving her term in Kharkiv. She was transferred to a clinic on May 9 to undergo medical treatment and a rehabilitation course under the supervision of doctors from the German clinic, Charite.
