The Ukrainian authorities should conduct a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation into allegations that Yulia Tymoshenko was beaten by guards at the penal colony where she is being held, Human Rights Watch has stressed

The 2012 European Championships were heading towards a diplomatic fiasco on Monday after more EU leaders said they would join Germany in a boycott of the event next month unless Ukraine freed the opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko.

If "all problems" between Ukraine and the EU were solved, parliament in Kyiv could pass extraordinary legislation to set former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko free from jail. That’s what Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovskiy was quoted as saying last week

The presiding judge said it would be impossible to hold the trial in her absence. On Friday, photos emerged of alleged injuries Ms Tymoshenko said she received while in prison last week.

President Yanukovych is leading Ukraine to international isolation. This was how observers commented on the refusal by the Presidents of Germany and Austria to visit the Summit of Central European Countries in Yalta from 11-12 May

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, Catherine Ashton recalls Ukraine’s obligation to promptly and impartially investigate any complaints of torture or ill-treatment and expresses concern over Ms Tymoshenko’s hunger strike

“I am extremely concerned about the reports that Yulia Tymoshenko was beaten up in prison. It is in the interest of the Ukrainian Government to make sure these claims are investigated in a credible and transparent manner and, if necessary, prosecuted"

German President Joachim Gauck has canceled a planned visit to Ukraine next month amid concerns over the treatment of ailing jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko

Former Interior Ministry employees have already collected the amount needed and paid the Ministry the amount which it is claimed former Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko spent on Police Day events in the Ukraina Palace in 2008 and 2009

Jean-Claude Mignon has said that the situation over the alleged beating in the prison colony of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko cannot be left without repercussions. Mignon said that the excuses given by Ukraine’s representatives did not convince anybody

In the light of Ms Tymoshenko’s hunger strike following apparen ill-treatment, European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele has stated that the treatment of Tymoshenko is a "stain" on Ukraine’s record.

At a briefing on Wednesday Nina Karpachova confirmed that there were bruise marks on the Prime Minister’s forearm, right elbow and stomach and demanded that the Prosecutor General initiate a criminal investigation

Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has expressed his deep concern at the decline in Yulia Tymoshenko’s health and her decision to carry out a hunger strike in response to the violence and abuse she says she is suffering

US Ambassador to Ukraine, John Teffl has said his Embassy will be looking into the allegations that the former Prime Minister and opposition leader was kicked in the stomach and beaten when being transported from the Kachanivska Penal Colony to a hospital in Kharkiv last week

Former Prime Minister and opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko asserts that she was kicked in the stomach when being taken to a Ukrainian hospital by force last week

Valeria Lutkovska, newly elected Human Rights Ombudsperson, has told Channel 5 that she is ready to review her position on the case of former Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko after a more detailed reading of the file material

Despite the media reports, the UK representative stated clearly that “ the Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement would not be signed and ratified until opposition figures, detained as the result of flawed trials, were released from prison and able to participate freely in Ukrainian political activity”.

The three most prominent former government officials sentenced to widely criticised prison terms have now all been returned to prison. Their medical treatment coincided with the European Court of Human Rights’ Public Hearing in the case of Lutsenko v. Ukraine on 17 April.

Germany’s Human Rights Ombudsperson Markus Lönung has railed the Head of UEFA for taking no action over the Tymoshenko case as the former Prime Minister and opposition leader is returned to prison

Irina Lutsenko, wife of imprisoned former Interior Minister and opposition politician, asserts that her husband’s two weeks of treatment in hospital ended as soon as the European Court of Human Rights public hearing in his case was over (on Tuesday) and the international experts left Ukraine