Amnesty International issued a report Tuesday that both slammed Russia’s justice system and condemned the country for human rights abuses committed by Russian forces in Chechnya. The report specifically pointed to the cases of former Yukos executives Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev to illustrate the poor state of Russia’s judicial system. “The cases highlighted serious problems in Russia's criminal justice system relating to the independence of the judiciary, access to effective legal counsel, conditions of detention and the use of torture and ill-treatment in order to extract confessions," the report said.