A RUSSIAN court has reduced the sentence of jailed Kremlin critic and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky from 13 to 11 years, setting his release for 2014.
The Moscow City Court on Thursday decided to cut the prison term served by the Yukos oil company founder and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev by two years due to changes in the criminal legislation that affect the charges against them.
"This way Mikhail Khodorkovsky is to be freed in October 2014, and Platon Lebedev in July 2014," said a statement on Khodorkovsky's media site.
The reduction applies to the charge of money laundering, court spokeswoman Anna Usacheva was quoted by news agencies as saying.
Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were convicted of embezzlement and money laundering in their second trial in late 2010.
They had already been serving time for an earlier conviction of fraud and tax evasion.
Khodorkovsky's lawyers reacted angrily to the decision.
They had appealed to the court for the release of the two defendants, arguing that under new legislation, they have already served their sentences in full.
"What can be our reaction to continuing lawlessness and reprisals? Of course, it is negative," one of the lawyers, Vadim Klyuvgant, said after the decision.
"We will continue to fight, and of course we will appeal."
Last month, a district court ruled that there should be a more significant reduction in Lebedev's sentence to allow for his release in July 2013 but the decision was overruled by a regional judge.
Khodorkovsky was Russia's richest man and a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin when he was first arrested in 2003. Since then his company Yukos has been dissolved. Supporters say his prosecution was punishment for daring to finance political opposition in Russia.
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