Secretary General reacts to Tymoshenko sentence
“In a democracy, judgment about political decisions should be left to the parliament and to voters, not to courts, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland has said
Reacting to the verdict in the trial against the former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland said:
“In a democracy, judgment about political decisions should be left to the parliament and to voters, not to courts. I hope that the recently proposed changes to the criminal code in Ukraine will make such trials impossible in the future."