Tomorrow, August 6, Russia’s Supreme Court will hear Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s and Platon Lebedev’s appeal against their second trial (December 2010) and conviction. Mikhail Khodorkovsky is expected to participate in the hearing via video link.

The defence team has argued in the appeal that “the contested verdict and subsequent judicial acts are unjust and rendered with numerous violations of the law and thus are subject to cancellation with termination of the case.”

The Supreme Court, however, announced in May that the December 2010 verdict will be reviewed only partially, in terms of whether the sentence should be reduced due to changes in the volume of funds described in the charges. It will not, therefore, be reviewing the guilty verdict itself.

General information and accreditation

When: August 6, 2013, 10am Moscow time (7am in London, 11pm in Washington)

Where:
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
15 Povarskaya Street, Moscow
Court’s Chamber 3078

Contact:
The Supreme Court’s general information: +7 495 690 4909; +7 495 627 9623
The Supreme Court’s Press Office: +7 495 627 96 58; +7 495 627 97 91

Accreditation: 
Pavel Petrovich Odintsov
+7 495 627 96 58
odintsov_pp@vsrf.ru

or Valeria Alexandrovna Zakharova
+7 495 627 97 91
zakharova_va@vsrf.ru