Tymoshenko to End Hunger Strike Wednesday

A file photograph dated 24 May 2011 of former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko after leaving the prosecutor`s office in Kiev, Ukraine. EPA/BGNES

Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will end her 19-day hunger strike after agreeing to be hospitalised under the supervision of a German doctor, her daughter Yevgenia has stated.

Yevgenia Tymoshenko said her mother will be moved to hospital on Wednesday to be treated by German doctor Lutz Harms.

The former Ukrainian PM launched a hunger strike to protest her alleged ill-treatment in jail, where she is serving a seven-year sentence. She has been sentenced for abuse of power for making a gas supply contract with Russia in 2009, after the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis; she herself claims that her political rival, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is using the country's judiciary to punish her.

Earlier on Tuesday, Ukraine postponed the Central European Summit scheduled to take place in Yalta on May 11-12 after several European leaders announced a boycott over concerns about the treatment of Tymoshenko.

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