The Kyiv Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence passed on Georgy Filipchuk, former Environment Minister in Yulia Tymoshenko’s government from a three-year term of imprisonment to a two-year suspended sentence

Eugenia Tymoshenko calls on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to withdraw invitation, saying Euro 2012 boycott has been ineffective

On Sunday the security guards outside the hospital ward where the former Prime Minister and opposition leader is undergoing treatment prevented Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, European Union Ambassador to Ukraine, from visiting Ms Tymoshenko

At the match between Germany – Holland in Kharkiv, two German MEPs – R. Harms and Verner Schulz – together with about 50 other people unfurled banners reading “Release all political prisoners” and “Fair play in football and politics”.

On the three areas vital for EU-Ukraine Association: fair elections, reform and an end to selective justice

The only witness questioned on Wednesday saw nothing lawful in the renewal of surveillance. The “victim” of the surveillance was again not present and despite protest from the defence, the judge is planning to read out his testimony

Viktor Yanukovych’s reported statement on Wednesday that it was the prerogative of the courts to determine whether Yulia Tymoshenko was implicated in the murder of Yevhen Shcherban came late given his remarks in a Bloomberg interview

Ukraine’s new Human Rights Ombudsperson has finally answered a question regarding Tymoshenko by only referring to the current charges against the former Prime Minister, already serving a 7-year sentence, and denying any other political component than that the prosecution is of a politician

The move is in protest at the "selective justice" meted out to jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. Other EU nations including Germany, Holland and Austria have also threatened a boycott of the tournament

Despite categorical protest at the previous hearing over Valentin Davydenko’s absence, he was not at the court hearing on Friday. After altercations in court, at the Judge’s order, neither was Yury Lutsenko

The well-known historian and publicist, Timothy Garton Ash writes that “every EU leader must make up their own mind, but the aim should be to punish the president and not the people”

There were rumours from early on Monday that former Interior Minister and opposition leader Yury Lutsenko might be moved to a penal colony in the next few days, This would get him well out of the way of visitors to Kyiv during Euro 2012, but one of the charges against him is still awaiting court examination

MEPs on 24 May passed a resolution about the situation in Ukraine and called for the unconditional immediate release of all prisoners sentenced on politically motivated grounds, including leaders of the opposition

Europe expects a concrete strategy to redress the effects of selective justice and prevent it from happening again, second free and fair elections and third the resumption of delayed reforms already agreed in the joint EU-Ukraine “Association Agenda”

The Prosecution claims the delay is to protect the former Prime Minister and opposition leader’s right to be at the trial. Ms Tymoshenko’s defence assert that the delay is to avoid a definite outcome before the PACE session on Ukraine in June

While one of the doctors treating Yulia Tymoshenko has stressed that her situation has been exacerbated by the failure to treat her adequately and called for a humane decision, President Yanukovych has come out publicly against treatment abroad

Former Soviet political prisoners are meeting in the Crimea on the 68th anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars, at a time when events in post-Soviet republics demand awareness of the danger and readiness to unite under the old banner: “For your freedom and ours!” (Mustafa Dzhemiliev)

Unfortunately nobody, least of all the former Interior Minister and opposition figure, expected a different outcome in this case which has been widely condemned as politically motivated and full of flagrant violations of the right to a fair trial

The hearing is now scheduled to take place during Euro 2012, This also signifcantly reduces the time left for an application to the European Court of Human Rights before the parliamentary elections in October

Former Interior Minister and opposition figure Yury Lutsenko has accused the Prosecutor of pulling his sentence out of thin air. During the hearing on Tuesday he pointed out just some of the features making the charges against him and his "conviction" incomprehensible