Amnesty International declares Khodorkovsky ‘prisoner of conscience’

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International declared on Tuesday jailed Russian tycoons Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev “prisoners of conscience” after a second prison sentence against them was upheld. A Moscow appeals court upheld the multi-million dollar theft and money laundering conviction against the two convicts on Tuesday and reduced their 14-year sentence by one year. […]