Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former CEO of the defunct oil giant Yukos, declared a hunger strike to protest the recent extension of his arrest for his second trial, which is currently underway in Moscow. Khodorkovsky points out that the recent amendments to the procedural law generally disallow arresting defendants charged of economic crimes. The defense also formally appealed from the arrest decision. (Since Khodorkovsky was sentenced to prison in his first trial, the lifting of the arrest would not mean his release, but could lead to milder conditions of confinement.)
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-48565620100517
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1371008
UPDATE:
Khodorkovsky Ends Hunger Strike
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/05/19/nohunger/
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