Khodorkovsky moved to utilities' unit to humiliate him - opposition figures
MOSCOW. July 1 (Interfax) - The cochairmen of the unregistered People's Freedom Party are outraged by the conditions in which former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been placed at his new penal colony.
"I find that the prison administration made a deliberately humiliating decision making Khodorkovsky clean the toilets.This is continues the humiliations and arbitrariness that we witnessed during his second trial," party cochairman Boris Nemtsov told Interfax on Friday.
Another cochairman of the party, Vladimir Milov, agreed.
"The decision demonstrates the determination of the prison administration which is probably acting at instructions from the top to further humiliate this particular convict," he told Interfax. "In these circumstances I want to wish Khodorkovsky staunchness and courage," he added.
Earlier a source in the penitentiary system told Interfax that Khodorkovsky was transferred from the quarantine unit of Segezha penal colony to unit #9.
"The two weeks of quarantine set by law expired for Khodorkovsky on Friday and he was distributed to unit #9. It is the so-called utilities unit which works on the life-support facilities of the colony itself," the source said.
