Source: BBC
Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been found guilty of embezzlement at his politically charged second trial in Moscow.
The judge said Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were guilty of stealing from their firm Yukos and laundering the proceeds.
Khodorkovsky is already serving an eight-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion from his 2005 trial.
His lawyers say the verdict was the result of official pressure.
Khodorkovsky, 47, was due to be released next year, but the new convictions could see him jailed for much longer.
The two defendants were led into court in handcuffs by armed guards.
In the sealed glass dock Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man. waved at his parents, the small courtroom packed with journalists and cameras.
Several hundred demonstrators could be heard outside the courtroom, chanting "Freedom!" and "Put Putin [the Russian prime minister] in jail!" - BBC
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