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Mikhail Khodorkovsky goes on indefinite hunger strike

Published on 18/05/2010

The former YUKOS CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, serving a term for fraud and tax evasion, has gone on an indefinite hunger strike to protest against an extension of the term of arrest under a new criminal case. His statement has been sent to the Chairman of the Russian Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev.