Ukraine opposition leader bashed in fresh clashes
13 Jan 2014 4:17 AM IST
Dozens of nationalist demonstrators protested late on Friday outside a Kiev court that had earlier in the day sentenced three men to six years in prison for allegedly plotting to blow up a statue of Soviet founder Lenin near the city’s main airport in 2011.
Ukrainian television showed several protesters being carried by stretcher to an ambulance that had been rushed to the scene.
Russian state television said the anti-riot troops moved in after being pelted with rocks by protesters who were trying to block police vans as the three convicts were being led out of the court in order to be placed in jail.
Ukrainian opposition news sites published photographs and video images of Lutsenko with his head bandaged and a large patch over his right eye.
Lutsenko’s wife Irina said her husband had suffered a concussion and head injuries after being attacked by club-wielding police while he was trying to break up the unfolding violence.
‘He has been placed in intensive care. They are going to keep him under observation,’ she told Ukraine’s opposition Hromadske television channel.
Ukrainian television showed several protesters being carried by stretcher to an ambulance that had been rushed to the scene.
Russian state television said the anti-riot troops moved in after being pelted with rocks by protesters who were trying to block police vans as the three convicts were being led out of the court in order to be placed in jail.
Ukrainian opposition news sites published photographs and video images of Lutsenko with his head bandaged and a large patch over his right eye.
Lutsenko’s wife Irina said her husband had suffered a concussion and head injuries after being attacked by club-wielding police while he was trying to break up the unfolding violence.
‘He has been placed in intensive care. They are going to keep him under observation,’ she told Ukraine’s opposition Hromadske television channel.
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