Daughter Says Former Ukraine PM Tortured The daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (YOOL'-yah tee-moh-SHEN'-koh) is telling U.S. lawmakers that her mother is being tortured in prison. Tymoshenko is serving a seven-year sentence on charges of abuse of office in a case the West has condemned as politically motivated. Daughter Eugenia Tymoshenko told a U.S. Senate panel Wednesday that prison authorities have intentionally caused her mother sleep deprivation. According to prepared testimony, Eugenia Tymoshenko said her mother is constantly kept in a lit cell under video surveillance and recently fell unconscious from a "mysterious loss of blood pressure." Prison authorities have said she merely felt dizzy. Eugenia Tymoshenko said that her mother has serious health problems that have gone untreated.