Once YUKOS CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, attends the trial on his conditional release in Chita, August 21, 2008.
Photo: Sergey Mikheev
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Khodorkovsky Refused Early Release
The Ingodinsky Court of Chita overruled the appeal for conditional release lodged by Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lawyers. The former oligarch continues to serve his eight-year sentence in the colony near Krasnokamensk-town of the Chita region.
In time of hearing, Chief of Chita Detention Facility Vladimir Klyukin urged the court to reject the appeal, as “Khodorkovsky should remain in the place of detention to reform.” Chief of Krasnokamensk Colony, where Khodorkovsky had been serving the sentence till December of 2006, echoed the words of his Chita colleague. The detention officials even presented a video proving that Khodorkovsky breached regulations.
Lawyers of ex-CEO of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky appealed for his conditional release July 16, 2008. They went to Ingodinsky District Court of Chita, as Khodorkovsky spent in detention facility and in colony more than a half of the sentence that the Moscow Meshchansky Court imposed on him in May of 2005. The term is calculated since Khodorkovsky’s arrest that dates back to October 25, 2003.
The lawyers said they would appeal the refusal in the court of higher instance.
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