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Christos Pourgourides: still no justice in the Khodorkovsky case

27/12/2010 Legal Affairs and Human Rights

‘The guilty verdict and especially the very harsh sentence announced against Mr Khodorkovsky does not deliver justice but instead serves only political ends,’ stated Christos Pourgourides, Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

‘I condemn this judgment as another infringement of the rule of law in a country where the judiciary is not free from political interference, contrary to the obligations and commitments stemming from Russia’s membership in the Council of Europe’, added Mr Pourgourides.

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Resolution 1685 on allegations of politically motivated abuses of the criminal justice system in Council of Europe member states Resolution 1418 on the circumstances surrounding the arrest and prosecution of leading Yukos executives