Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been released from prison, her party spokesperson said.
Tymoshenko, who is a former Prime Minister, lost the 2010 presidential election to Viktor Yanukovych.
The following year, she was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of abuse of authority over a natural gas deal negotiated with Russia in 2009.
She repeatedly called the trial a farce. The United States and Europe saw the punishment as politically motivated.
In 2012, after Tymoshenko was allegedly beaten unconscious by guards, she went on a hunger strike to draw attention to "violence and lack of rights" in her country.
She is known as a hero of the country's 2004 revolution.
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