KIEV, Sept. 30 – Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, in a video smuggled out of prison hospital, accused President Viktor Yanukovych of running a ‘mafia’ government and urged the people to vote his party out of office next month.

The video, taken on a cell phone by her lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko and posted on YouTube on Saturday, shows Tymoshenko for the first time since December 2011.

It shows Tymoshenko sitting in a small room and berating the government for breaking laws in order to prosecute political opponents and for personal enrichment.

A prison guard is trying to block the recording by putting his hands over the lens of the cell phone. The video also shows an unidentified lady covering her face with hands and a man standing in the room and shooting his own video on a camcorder.

"Every person can feel that the law is being trampled, that people are completely destitute. And here I feel all this on my own fate, my own life," Tymoshenko said.

She then directly attacks Yanukovych and his government for usurping the power and using it for personal enrichment.

"Everything that is written in the laws regarding human rights means nothing to Yanukovych's mafia,” Tymoshenko said. “The only things that mean anything to them are enrichment, corruption and everything else that they made for themselves in Ukraine."

She also accused Yanukovych of personally ordering her prosecution.

“Every day they put not only psychological and physical pressure,” Tymoshenko said. “Every day is simply turned into hell, consciously and deliberately. This is Yanukovych’s plan.”

Yanukovych has previously denied any involvement into Tymoshenko’s prosecution. At the United Nations General Assemby in New York last week, Yanukovych did not make any mention of Tymoshenko's imprisonment.

Meanwhile, hours after the Tymoshenko video was posted on YouTube, the Ukrainian prison authority had responded by posting its own video of Tymoshenko slamming the hospital door with her shoe and demanding a meeting with her political allies.

In the video Tymoshenko seems frail and only able to stand with the assistance of a medical supportive chair, while a prison guard is blocking her way out of the room.

Later, the prison authority has issued a statement questioning Tymoshenko’s stay in hospital and suggesting she must be relocated back to her prison in Kharkiv.

“The prison authorities, at an order of Yanukovych, will trying to hide Tymoshenko behind bars of the Kchanivska prison so that without spare witnesses they could continue to torture her,” Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna party said in a statement.

“Everyone understands that this is a revenge for releasing the video address in which Tymoshenko calls on the society to stop the corruption regime of Yanukovych that ignores and destroys the rights of the people,” the party said.

The last video of Tymoshenko showed her bed-ridden in Kharkiv prison during a hunger strike in December 2011.

The former prime minister was found guilty in October 2011 of criminally "abusing her office" over a 2009 gas deal with Gazprom, in what the United States and European Union have both called a politically motivated show trial. (tl/ez)