Russian Moved to Solitary After Being Cut

[WhiteTara]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/world/europe/19moscow.html
MOSCOW, April 18 —Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the jailed Russian oil oligarch who was recently slashed in the face, has been put into solitary confinement in a Siberian penal camp, Russia's federal prison authorities announced on Tuesday.
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Interfax quoted what it described as an anonymous prison source saying that the inmate who slashed Mr. Khodorkovsky, a 22-year-old man serving a sentence for theft, had given a written statement accusing Mr. Khodorkovsky of sexual harassment.

Mr. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, has been held since his arrest in 2003, and was convicted last year of fraud and other charges that his supporters say were contrived by the Kremlin to destroy a rival and to reassert state control over Russia's oil assets.

He is serving an eight-year sentence in a prison colony in the remote city of Chita, about 100 miles north of the border with eastern Mongolia. Robert Amsterdam, one of his lawyers, said Russia's actions, and the claims of sexual harassment, showed the degree to which Russia still feared Mr. Khodorkovsky, even in jail. "It is incredible to me that the Russian Federation will stop at nothing in destroying this man," he said by telephone.

Mr. Kalinin did not say how long Mr. Khodorkovsky would serve under the new conditions; the prison service did not answer phone calls.

[TheLastMohican]

1. Ain't it ironic?

A guy who probably had 30 guards around him in the "good al' plundering days" was arse-raped in a prison.

He is no Russian though, many Russians would find that offensive.

[Irreverend IX]

2. But in America...

...even the crookedest CEOs can rest assured that they'll never see the inside of a prison cell. Don't you think Ken Lay could use some time in the gulag?