Ukraine's highest court upholds Tymoshenko verdict
AP
FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2011 file photo former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko waves to supporters from a prison window in Kiev, Ukraine. Lawyers for jailed opposition leader Tymoshenko appealed to Europe's human rights court Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 as her only hope for a fair hearing, accusing the government of rigging the criminal case against her. (AP Photo/Ukrafoto)
FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2011 file photo former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko waves to supporters from a prison window in Kiev, Ukraine. Lawyers for jailed opposition leader Tymoshenko appealed to Europe's human rights court Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 as her only hope for a fair hearing, accusing the government of rigging the criminal case against her. (AP Photo/Ukrafoto)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 file photo, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is pictured during her trial, at the Pecherskiy District Court in Kiev, Ukraine. Lawyers for Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader who has been jailed and convicted of abusing her office, are appealing before the European Court of Human Rights, with the hearing on Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012, it comes one day before a court in Ukraine is expected to rule on her appeal against her conviction, which she says is politically motivated. Tymoshenko was an architect of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. She was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 over allegations involving a gas contract negotiated while she was prime minister. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, file)
FILE - In this April 29, 2009 file photo, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and then Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko talk to each other as they leave a news conference after their talks in Moscow, Russia. Lawyers for now jailed opposition leader Tymoshenko appealed to Europe's human rights court Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 as her only hope for a fair hearing, accusing the government of rigging the criminal case against her. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ? Ukraine's highest court has upheld the guilty verdict against the country's ex-prime minister, who is in jail on abuse of office charges.
Yulia Tymoshenko was an architect of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. She was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 over allegations involving a gas contract negotiated while she was prime minister.
Judge Alexander Elfimov said on Wednesday as he was reading the ruling that the court "found no grounds to uphold (Tymoshenko's) appeal" of the verdict.
The former prime minister's supporters say the trial was initiated by her opponent President Viktor Yanukovich, who denies the accusations.
Lawyers for Tymoshenko are appealing her conviction in the European Court for Human Rights.
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