Jailed Russian tycoon again in punishment cell
AFP, June, 2006
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MOSCOW (AFP) — Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed founder of Russia's Yukos oil company, has for a third time been placed in a solitary confinement cell.
Separately, the official newspaper of the prison system, Resonance, said it had recruited the former tycoon as one of its "voluntary" correspondents.
Khodorkovsky was placed in the isolation cell on Saturday, the day after a visit by his wife Inna, for violating rules on the transfer of food or possessions between inmates, the former tycoon's press centre said.
The body responsible for overseeing prisons, the federal punishment implementation board, could not be immediately contacted to confirm the measure against Khodorkovsky.
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Khodorkovsky's press centre said he was to spend a total of 10 days in the isolation cell.
"What exactly this is for or when it was decided we don't know," one of the press centre's officials, Maxim Dbar, told AFP. ...
