(30 Apr 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Judges arriving in courtroom
2. Cutaway of press
3. Wide of courtroom
4. Judge Dean Spielmann reading part of verdict UPSOUND (English):
"In its judgement the court, first, declares unanimously the complaint under article 3 of the convention concerning the applicant's alleged ill treatment during her transfer to the hospital on the 20th of April 2012 and its investigation, as well as the complaints under article 5 and 18 of the convention admissible and the remainder of the application inadmissible."
5. Wide of courtroom
6. Tymoshenko's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko looking on
7. Judges leaving
8. Wide of courtroom
9. Tymoshenko lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko, talking to press
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Serhiy Vlasenko, lawyer for Yulia Tymoshenko:
"The court by itself said that there were no grounds for that violations and that was not a criminal prosecution. There was another aim of that prosecution and everyone knows that that was a politically motivated prosecution and that was stressed by the court, so first time, not the political institution but the highest European legal institution in a legal way said that the prosecution of Mrs Tymoshenko in Ukraine had nothing to do with the law, nothing to do with the democratic standards, had nothing to do with the criminal prosecution. That is a pure, I would say, concentrated political prosecution."
11. Various of lawyer talking to press
STORYLINE
Ukraine's jailing of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was a politically motivated violation of her rights, Europe's human rights court ruled on Tuesday in Strasbourg.
An architect of Ukraine's 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution, Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 after being convicted of exceeding her powers as premier while negotiating a gas contract with Russia.
Tymoshenko has said her jailing was intended to keep her out of politics and that her rights were violated when she was first jailed in August 2011.
The court agreed unanimously that her jailing was "for other reasons" than those permissible by law.
"It was not a criminal prosecution. There was another aim of that prosecution and everyone knows that that was a politically motivated prosecution," said Serhiy Vlasenko, Tymoshenko's lawyer.
He said the court found "the prosecution of Mrs. Tymoshenko in Ukraine had nothing to do with the law, had nothing to do with democratic standards, had nothing to do with a criminal prosecution."
It's unclear how a decision by the European court would be legally binding in Ukraine.
In Kiev, the government representative with the European Court of Human Rights told the Interfax news agency that the Ukrainian government needs time to study the ruling but suggested the government might appeal it.
Both sides have three months to do so.
Tymoshenko and her allies, including Vlasenko, who was expelled from parliament, charged that her jailing was masterminded by President Viktor Yanukovych, who is afraid of the country's top opposition leader and is intent on keeping her locked in jail and out of politics.
Yanukovych has said that this was a legal matter he cannot interfere with.
If the decision is upheld on appeal, Tymoshenko's legal team could petition Ukraine's Supreme Court to annul Tymoshenko's conviction and seven-year sentence on the grounds that it was issued by the same judge who ordered her arrested.
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