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European Court of Human Rights Rules Against Russia in Lebedev Case

Breaking news: Lawyers for Platon Lebedev, a former Yukos manager and business partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, have announced that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled in their favor, finding that Russia had violated his rights on five counts during his arrest in 2003. The ECHR found that Russia unlawfully kept Lebedev in pretrial detention after it expired, illegally prevented Lebedev and his lawyer from attending the detention hearing, and that the two appeals proceedings by the defense were too slow.

Posted by James on October 25, 2007 2:58 PM |
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La Russophobe [TypeKey Profile Page]:

That is great news!

Makes me wonder: Does Khodorkovsky himself have cases pending before the ECHR?

Posted by La Russophobe [TypeKey Profile Page] | October 25, 2007 4:43 PM

Posted on October 25, 2007 16:43

JT [TypeKey Profile Page]:

Yes, he does. The best place to track the latest updates from those ones is www.khodorkovsky.info.

Of course we'll post all major news here as well...

Posted by JT [TypeKey Profile Page] | October 25, 2007 7:25 PM

Posted on October 25, 2007 19:25

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