August 25, 2005

Khodorkovsky Business Partner Lebedev Moved Out of Isolation Cell

Russian prison authorities moved Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner Platon Lebedev back to a regular cell on August 25, after almost a week in solitary confinement. Prison system chief Yuri Kalinin said Lebedev was moved out of the isolation cell where he had been transferred on August 19, for a seven-day period. A lawyer for Khodorkovsky, Anton Drel, said Khodorkovsky would end his hunger strike if he heard his associate was transferred back to a regular cell.

(Source: Associated Press.)