Chornovol under house arrest
A court in Kyiv has placed former lawmaker Tetyana Chornovol under house arrest on suspicion of murder during deadly anti-government protests known as the Euro-Maidan in February 2014. The Pechersk district court ruled late on April 16 that Ms. Chornovol, a member of the European Solidarity party led by former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, will stay under house arrest until June 8. Police searched Ms. Chornovol’s home in Kyiv on April 10, and later she was officially informed that she was a suspect in the murder of an employee of the office of the pro-Russia Party of Regions. The man died after the party’s office in downtown Kyiv was set on fire. Investigators say Ms. Chornovol led a group of people who set the building on fire, which the former lawmaker rejects. Mr. Poroshenko last week criticized the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) for launching the probe against Ms. Chornovol, a former investigative journalist well-known for her anti-Kremlin stance, calling it “an attempt to rewrite the history under Moscow’s orders.”