Jailed Russian tycoon on hunger strike
Jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has begun a hunger strike to support his colleague Platon Lebedev, who was moved into an isolation cell last week, according to a statement.
In the statement read in part by Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Anton Drel on NTV television, the Russian oil magnate claimed President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin was behind decisions by prison authorities to transfer Lebedev to the isolation cell and move him to a more crowded cell with fewer amenities.
