Tom Parfitt in Moscow
Wednesday August 24, 2005
The Guardian
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed Russian billionaire, announced last night that he was going on hunger strike in protest at his business associate being moved into an isolation cell.
The tycoon launched his protest - in which he has vowed to deny himself water as well as food - with an attack on President Vladimir Putin.
Khodorkovsky said the recent decision to move him to a cell shared with 10 others and to put Platon Lebedev in an isolation cell was punishment for his outspoken attacks on the president.
"Let the Kremlin believe that by doing this it is demonstrating power when in fact it is a demonstration of their weakness and fear," he announced through his lawyers.
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