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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Ukraine's ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko Set Free Saturday Feb 22,2014

This handout picture taken and released by the Batkivshyna press service on Saturday Feb. 22,2014 shows Ukraine's jailed pro-Western opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko leaving the hospital in Kharkiv.
 


 Yulia Tymoshenko was set free on Saturday Feb. 22,2014 by parliament meeting in emergency sessions,decriminalized the сriminal сode articles that Tymoshenko was accused of violating

 Yulia Tymoshenko was freed on Saturday from the hospital where she had been held under prison guard for most of the time since she was convicted in 2011.
    
Yulia Tymoshenko walked free after she spent 30 months in jail for abuse of office, a conviction widely regarded as political persecution
   
Yulia Tymoshenko flown to the EuroMaidan to address a crowd of more than 100,000 people where she
 thanked the crowd for her freedom and urged people to stay on the square, prosecute Yanukovych and "his goons," and honor the slain victims of EuroMaidan who gave their lives for Ukraine's freedom.

“This is the free country that you have given us as a gift,” Tymoshenko told people at the square, while seated in a wheelchair.

In her speech of about 20 minutes, Tymoshenko focused on the nearly 100 slain protesters and how their sacrifice must not be made in vain.
She also hinted on her role in the future of Ukrainian politics.
“I will be your guarantee that no one will betray you. You know politics is sometimes a theater. I will guarantee that you will always know what is going on backstage,” she said.

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