26 May 2004 01:58
Jail conditions for Yukos co-owners said to be satisfactory
MOSCOW. May 26 (Interfax) - The conditions in which Yukos co-owners Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are being
held in custody are satisfactory, a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) envoy heard on Tuesday.
Vladimir Yakunin, head of the Russian Justice Ministry's Federal Correction Service (GUIN), told Sabina
Leutheuser-Snarrenberger, the PACE representative due to give a report on the Yukos affair, that Platon Lebedev was in
satisfactory health.
"As for Khodorkovsky, we said that he meets with relatives and
lawyers on a regular basis. The administration has received no
"Since he has been in custody, Lebedev has been seen by doctors on 21 occasions and has turned down invitations
to undergo examinations on a further 14 occasions," Yakunin said.
"Doctors say Lebedev is in satisfactory condition, the sort that could be expected of a man of his age and
build," Yakunin said.
complaints on his part." [RU ASIA EUROPE EEU EMRG ENR POL CRIM MED WEU EU] pr
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