MOSCOW - The defense attorneys for former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his ex-business partner Platon Lebedev have filed a new complaint with the European Court of Human Rights regarding alleged offenses by the court during the two men's second trial.
Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Karinna Moskalenko told Interfax she and Lebedev’s attorney Yelena Liptser submitted the complaint on Wednesday.
Moskalenko said it was the third complaint to have been filed by the two men’s defense teams and that the first one went into the Strasbourg-based court as soon as the court began to commit its alleged offenses during the trial.
"In our complaint we point to a whole series of offenses committed by the court during the second trial. But the essence of them all is that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev had their right to a fair trial violated," she said.
