KYIV. July 25 (Interfax) - Convicted former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has received permission to meet with the first deputy leader of her Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party, Oleksandr Turchynov, and European Union Ambassador to Ukraine Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira.
"At the demand of the convict, permission has been extended for such a meeting by way of exception. Convict Tymoshenko has been notified about this decision," the State Penitentiary Service said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Let us mention that physicians have recommended that the patient limit the number of visits that she is going to have while she remains at the hospital," the service said.
Initially, Tymoshenko was denied permission to see Turchynov and Teixeira, as that would have been over and above the number of meetings with relatives and others that she was allowed, the service said.