KYIV. Aug 8 (Interfax) - The ruling of the Kyiv district administrative court banning peaceful opposition rallies outside of Pechersky district court and Lukyanovsky detention facility will be appealed in due time, people's deputy Serhiy Vlasenko (BYuT-Batkivshchyna) has announced.
"We have not filed an appeal yet," he said to Interfax on Sunday.
He added that the administrative court had passed its ruling at night and there is still time for appealing it.
He said that by picketing Pechersky district court deputies are not violating the court ruling.
"In this case the court did not prohibit people's deputies to receive citizens. This is the reception of voters organized by the BYuT-Batkivshchyna faction," he said.
An Interfax correspondent reports that innumerous supporters of the former prime minister and leader of Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, and her opponents remain on the pedestrian part of Khreshchatyk Street on the side of Pechersky court.
Tymoshenko's supporters expect the enforcement of the ruling of the administrative court banning protests.
The police have installed additional metal shields along Khreshchatyk almost to Shevchenko Boulevard thus blocking pedestrian traffic along the city's main thoroughfare from Khmelnitsky Street to Shevchenko Boulevard.
Some 20 tents remain in the street with signs indicating that they are pubic reception rooms of people's deputies.
Tymoshenko's opponents - members of the Military Union of Ukraine - are carrying flags of their organization and placards "Louis Vuitton - the Ukrainian opposition brand," "Yulia, that's enough!", "Tymoshenko to book!"
About a dozen police buses are parked along Khreshchatyk and Khmelnitsky Streets.
A sufficient number of police, mainly Interior Troops, oversee law and order in Khreshchatyk. No Berkut special police are visible.
Vlasenko told Interfax that the action will hardly be dispersed during the day on Sunday. He assumed that the personnel of the Kyiv city municipal improvement department that has been placed in charge of enforcing the court ruling will probably appear at night, at around 4 a.m. when picketers may become less vigilant.
The Kyiv district administrative court banned any actions in Khreshchatyk Street and in Independence Square on August 7 through 31 and also in Degtyarevskaya Street and along the entire perimeter of the detention facility - without any time limitation.
Tymoshenko was arrested in Pechersky district court handling her gas on Friday and taken to Lukyanovsky detention facility. Also on Friday deputies decided to launch a protest action for an indefinite period of time against her arrest.