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Last month Vera Trifonova, a 53-year-old businesswoman who was reported to have diabetes and chronic kidney failure, died in the Matrosskaya Tishina jail in Moscow while awaiting trial for fraud. Her death followed that of Sergei Magnitsky, 37, who had been in the same jail in November when he died due to untreated pancreatitis. Magnitsky had been arrested on tax-evasion charges linked to his work with Hermitage Capital Management, a multibillion-dollar fund headed by U.S.-born British investor William Browder. Khodorkovsky conducted a 14-day hunger strike in 2008 to protest authorities treatment of former Yukos executive Vasily Aleksanian, who faces trial despite being gravely ill.
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