{"id":27739,"date":"2011-10-11T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27739"},"modified":"2011-10-11T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:35:06","slug":"ukraine-tymoshenko-jailed-for-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27739","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Tymoshenko jailed for seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ukraine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Ukraine\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a>&#8216;s most popular and powerful politicians has been sentenced to <a title=\"Telegraph -Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko sentenced to seven years in jail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/ukraine\/8819870\/Ukraines-Yulia-Tymoshenko-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-jail.html\" target=\"_blank\">seven years in prison<\/a>.\u00a0Yulia V Tymoshenko <a title=\"NY Times - Yulia Tymoshenko jailed for seven years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/12\/world\/europe\/yulia-tymoshenko-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\">carried out negotiations<\/a> with Russia regarding the price of natural gas during 2009, which cost the Ukrainian treasury \u00a3118 million, and damaged the country&#8217;s own gas industry. \u00a0The judge,\u00a0Rodion Kireye, said that Tymoshenko had &#8220;used her official powers to criminal ends&#8221;, and &#8220;committed actions which clearly exceeded her rights and powers&#8221;. Tymoshenko believes that the\u00a0trial is politically-motivated revenge.\u00a0The European Union immediately issued\u00a0<a title=\"European Union message on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/EUCouncilPress\/status\/123709978354790401\" target=\"_blank\">a message via Twitter<\/a>\u00a0saying it was \u201cdeeply disappointed with the verdict\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Ukraine&#8216;s most popular and powerful politicians has been sentenced to seven years in prison.\u00a0Yulia V Tymoshenko carried out negotiations with Russia regarding the price of natural gas during 2009, which cost the Ukrainian treasury \u00a3118 million, and damaged the country&#8217;s own gas industry. \u00a0The judge,\u00a0Rodion Kireye, said that Tymoshenko had &#8220;used her official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7349,7407,3893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27745,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739\/revisions\/27745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}