Ex-Yukos Boss on Hunger Strike

摘要

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Russian oil giant Yukos, said he is go- ing on hunger strike after he and former busi- ness partner Platon Lebedev were ordered to remain in harsh pretrial detention in Moscow until Aug. 17, rather than return to a regular prison. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are al- ready serving eight-year jail terms for tax eva- sion and fraud, and were moved in 2009 from Siberia to the Moscow prison to face new charges of embezzling 350 million tons of crude oil over six years (IOD Mar.5,p8).