Khodorkovsky Urges Conviction Annulment

Imprisoned former oil magnate and outspoken Kremlin critic, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has called on the head of Russia's Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, to overturn the second conviction against him. Already in custody since 2003, the head of oil giant Yukos, who was once Russia's richest man, was found guilty of embezzlement in December 2010, at a trial widely criticized abroad. Khodorkovsky said it was in Vyacheslav Lebedev's powers to overturn the "unprofessional" ruling last month by a lower Supreme Court judge, which upheld his 2010 prison sentence. "I call on you to prove that the Supreme Court is the place where justice is being done," he said. Khodorkovsky says both trials against him were politically motivated, a claim denied by the Kremlin.

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