Jan-14-2020

In a new judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were denied their right to a fair trial when a Russian court tried and convicted them of embezzlement and money laundering. While not finding any “political motives” in the prosecution, the ECHR holds that the defendants’ treatment by the Russian courts constituted violations of three articles of the European Convention of Human Rights.