Late in the evening of September 22, the Moscow city court announced its verdict on the appeal to revisit the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, who had been sentenced to nine years in jail by the Meshchansky district court.
Baev, Pavel K. (2005) In Great Haste, Khodorkovsky Found Guilty, Gets One Year Less than Sentenced, Eurasia Daily Monitor. 26 September.