AP - Jailed tycoon recovering after slashing by inmate

MOSCOW (AP) - Jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been hospitalized after another prisoner slashed him in the face while he slept, his lawyer said Saturday.
Yury Schmidt said the prisoner used a sharp object in the attack, which occurred sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning.

The billionaire tycoon, once Russia's richest man, required stitches and was recovering in the Siberian prison's infirmary wing, Schmidt said.

Khodorkovsky, imprisoned since October, is serving an eight-year sentence for tax evasion and fraud. His Yukos oil empire was carved up by the state.

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