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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9232

14 July 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/russia
100 MEPs call for fair trial for Khodorkovsky

Brussels, 13/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - Ahead of the G8 Summit which opens in Saint Petersburg on 15 July, over 100 MEPs from five political groups (mainly EPP-ED, but also from the PES, ALDE, Greens/EFA and UEN groups) have sent an open letter to President Putin calling on him to transfer Mikhail Khodorovsky, the former Chief Executive of Yukos, currently being detained in Siberia, to a prison in Moscow and to ensure that the is “swiftly given a fair trial”. The MEPs, among whom feature...

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