KIEV, May 21 - European officials who met this week with imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that authorities are impinging on her privacy, The Associated Press reported.

Mailis Reps and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin, rapporteurs for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, visited Tymoshenko this week in the hospital room where she is being treated for a chronic back condition.