Tymoshenko unrepentant as Ukraine trial draws to end
Ukraine's ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday defiantly told a Kiev court trying her for abuse of office that she was the victim of a "lynching trial" that had brought humiliation on Ukraine, Reuters reported.
Tymoshenko, speaking at the end of a trial in which the prosecutor has called for a seven-year jail sentence to be passed on her, said: "You should have already brought in an acquittal sentence and ended this humiliation of Ukraine. But the show goes on." Standing up dramatically after weeks of remaining seated in defiance of the judge, she turned to her supporters in the courtroom and said: "This has been a classic lynching trial by a group of people who were given the task of sorting out a mess."
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