Khodorkovsky remain in prison

May 24, 2011 update at 13 h 34 GMT (right) of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were recognized guilty together A Moscow Court upheld second conviction appeal of Khodorkovsky ex-magnat for fraud but reduce his sentence of 14 years for one year.

Khodorkovsky has been recognized guilty in December of hijacking of almost $30bn (￡ 19bn, EUR 21bn) a value of oil and the proceeds of his own company.

He told the Court his conviction, which extended his existing sentence by six years, was "absurd".

It appears that it will be not eligible for release now until 2016.

The prosecution and imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man of the Russia as the owner of the energy giant Yukos, has been widely criticized outside the Russia.

His fate was seen by some as punishment for which seek to support a liberal opposition in Russia policy and thus challenging Vladimir Putin, former President and current Prime Minister.

"Spit on the right."

Questions about his new collected conviction force in February, when the trial judge was accused of having changed his verdict, under external pressure.

Judge Viktor Danilkin denied accusations by his Deputy of the Court, Natalya Vasilyeva.

In a speech to the Court on Tuesday, Khodorkovsky said "it was clear" the charges against him and the sentence made were "absurd."

He called on the judges of the Court of three appeal to throw the case.

"Mixing the sentence and place to end this shame or you will join these criminals who spit on the Act," Khodorkovsky said.

It was certain, he said, his fate was decided outside the Court and said he would seek clemency.

The appeal with him is his business partner, Platon Lebedev.

Arrested in 2003, the two men were eventually sentenced to prison nine years in 2005 for fraud and tax evasion, a term also later reduced by one year.

The new sentence imposed in December runs at the same time that the first term.

Ex-FMI head Strauss-Kahn, released from prison

Armed guards stand guard 24 hours a day. Cameras record every gesture, and monitors the prisoner alert authorities should try to escape. This is the new prison of Dominique Strauss-Kahn later in prison, after the former leader of the IMF charged with sexual assault on a maid left a prison in the city of New York for a posh residency and expensive.

The plans hit a snag Friday when a complex of apartments Upper East Side tony refused to accept the single French candidate for the Presidency because of the unwanted media attention. Instead, Strauss-Kahn was installed Saturday in a lower Manhattan towers in the Department of Police of New York of steel ring, a private network and police cameras. It is guarded by Stroz Friedberg, the same security firm kept dishonoured financier Bernard Madoff under supervision in his own apartment.

It is not clear when and where he would be transferred to a permanent residency. calls to his lawyer and the security firm were not returned Saturday.

Even with severe restrictions, the family patrimony of Strauss-Kahn gave him one of the cushiest surety agreements possible. But it don't come expensive. The cost to secure the former head of the Monetary Fund International has been estimated at $200,000 per month - and he must pay the invoice. In comparison, it costs the city about $6,500 per month to House an inmate in an institution like Rikers Island, where he was held nearly a week.

The funds will be used to reinforced monitoring, the installation of cameras and a special bracelet chained ankle that will trigger an alarm if he travels too far.

Right now, it is prohibited on all, but after it is moved to a more permanent location, he can leave for the Court, visits the doctor and the weekly religious services. Prosecutors must be notified at least six hours before it goes anywhere. It cannot be between 10 pm and 6 pm.

And it will not be lonely: Strauss-Kahn can have visitors - up to four at a time in addition to the family.

Aged 62, was indicted by a grand jury this week on charges, including criminal sexual abuse and attempted rape in the alleged attack the weekend last at the Sofitel near Times Square in Manhattan.

He was detained at the prison because a judge originally sided prosecutors who believed a substantial risk of flight, taking into account of its wealth and its status as international, and worried if he was simply released it would flee in France, which has laws on extradition that favor its residents. Initially his lawyers sought his release on bail of $ 1 million, but revised the plan later in the week to add more stringent restrictions of house arrest.

State Supreme Justice Michael j. SB signed off the coast on the plan and ordered the release of Strauss-Kahn of Rikers Island Friday.

A spokesman for Stroz Friedberg did no comment on the last client of the company.

The company has a history of high stakes, high-wealth customers: it guarantee Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani, rich Long Island couple, recognized domestic, guilty of two bondage they brought the Indonesia keeping their travel with documents perform forced. In the detention of home of the couple, the firm was reprimanded by judge allowing Mahender Sabhnani remain out in business in Manhattan until 1 a.m. meetings.

At least 18 killed in combat in Baghdad prison: official

Baghdad  - at least 18 people were killed in fighting between security officers and prisoners in a prison in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior complex in Baghdad on Sunday, a security officer, said.

The dead included an al Qaeda leader known as the "Emir of Baghdad" which planned an attack on a Catholic Church last October in which more than 50 people died, said Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, spokesman for the security of Baghdad.

The skirmish to a central unit to fight against terrorism in the Karrada district of Baghdad began when a prisoner grabbed a gun from a guard, killed several guards and officers of the Ministry of the Interior and has given a weapon to other inmatessaid Moussawi.

"The guards and security forces responded to the prison of the Department of the fight against terrorism and killed 11 terrorist prisoners... including Huthaifa al-Batawi, the Emir of Baghdad, which was responsible for the planning of the Church attack," said Moussawi.

Moussawi said seven security officers were killed in the skirmish and another was wounded.

Batawi was arrested with 11 other late November for the assault on October 31 on the Church of our Lady of salvation during the Sunday mass. Dozens of hostages and police died when Iraqi forces attempted to free the Catholic hostage more than 100.

The attack was the bloodiest against the Christian minority in the Iraq since the invasion led by the United States in 2003.

Moussawi, said the situation in the prison was under control and some prisoners had escaped.

Since on Iraqi security forces high alert for revenge attacks by al-Qaida U.S. commandos killed the leader of the Group of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Monday.