ECHR may pass ruling on Tymoshenko's appeal in March, says Kwasniewski

Former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who is a member of the European Parliament's monitoring mission for the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, expects that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will make a ruling concerning Tymoshenko in March.

At the 9th investment conference of Dragon Capital company in Kyiv on Wednesday, he said that they expected the Strasbourg Court to pass a ruling on Tymoshenko's appeal next month.

Kwasniewski also expressed surprise that ten months ahead of the Eastern Partnership Summit, materials for a new case against Tymoshenko on her suspected involvement in the murder of MP Yevhen Shcherban in 1996 had been taken from the archives.

He said it was currently necessary to solve Tymoshenko's health problems and not to aggravate her current situation.

As reported, Tymoshenko's appeal was filed at the ECHR on August 10, 2011. The ex-premier alleges that her detention was politically motivated; that there has been no judicial review of the lawfulness of her detention in Kyiv detention center; that her detention conditions were improper, with no medical care provided for her numerous health problems; and, that she was under round-the-clock surveillance in Kharkiv hospital.

Interfax-Ukraine has been informed recently that the ECHR is to announce its decision on the appeal in the near future.