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Justice is matter of conviction for Russian judges

By Neil Buckley

Published: October 22 2005 03:00 | Last updated: October 22 2005 03:00

Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrived this week in a Siberian prison colony 3,000 miles from Moscow - but now lawyers who defended the former Yukos oil executive against fraud charges are themselves under attack.

Four members of Mr Khodorkovsky's defence team were summoned for questioning yesterday to the Moscow Lawyers' Chamber, which is considering a demand made by prosecutors to disbar them for "breaching lawyers' ethics".

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