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Daughter of Ukraine's jailed ex-PM Tymoshenko meets German ministers, urges more pressure

BERLIN - The daughter of Ukraine's imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko says European and other Western nations should increase the pressure on the government in Kyiv over her mother's case.

Eugenia Tymoshenko said Wednesday at a meeting with German justice ministers in Wiesbaden that such pressure would be in Europe's interest because it is "very dangerous to have such an authoritarian regime on the border of the EU."

Yulia Tymoshenko is serving a seven-year prison sentence on charges of abuse of power, a case the West has strongly condemned as politically motivated.

Her daughter appealed to the ministers from Germany's 16 states and their counterpart from the national government "for continuing pressure and for more action and protest" against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich's administration.

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