Amnesty Irks Russia Over Khodorkovsky

The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denounced Amnesty International’s labeling of former Yukos owners Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev as prisoners of conscience — a decision that their supporters said should have come after their first jailing seven years ago. Amnesty, which campaigns for the release of people it has recognized as prisoners of conscience, said it decided that the two businessmen were being prosecuted for their […]