Kremlin rights council urges Khodorkovsky review

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s presidential human rights council on Wednesday recommended to investigators that jailed ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s second sentence, which will keep him in prison until 2016, be reviewed. The recommendation is the strongest sign of support from the authorities since Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man and ex-head of oil giant Yukos, was arrested in 2003 after …