Khodorkovsky wins lemon appeal

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Makes me think of the good old days in the USSR somehow.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos - once Russia's biggest privately-owned oil company - has reportedly won an appeal against a sentence of solitary confinement for keeping lemons in his Siberian prison cell.

A regional court quashed the decision on Wednesday, saying there were no legal grounds for it, Khodorkovsky's supporters said.

Khodorkovsky, who is serving an eight-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion in a jail near the Chinese border, was put in a punishment cell for 10 days in June after warders found two "undeclared" lemons in his cell.


"It's impossible to do anything about those 10 days he spent there, but it will be removed from his legal documents," a spokesman for a support group - "Press-centre Mikhail Khodorkovsky" - which monitors his life in jail, told Reuters news agency.

al Jazeera