Once Russia's richest man, whose wealth Forbes magazine estimated at more than $15 billion, Khodorkovsky is now serving his eight-year term on tax evasion and fraud charges in a prison in East Siberia.
"He did not have a party and could not do so. Inmates of penal colonies are limited in their possibilities," Natalia Terekhova said, adding that her client's menu today did not vary from what he was usually served in jail.
Since the oligarch arrived at the Siberian prison in October 2005, he has been put in solitary confinement four times, including for drinking tea in "an unauthorized place" and for allegedly breaching a prison regulation prohibiting inmates from accepting "personal food products, objects, or substances" after a three-day meeting with his wife.
The first decision to place him in a solitary cell for allegedly possessing inappropriate documents has been dismissed as incorrect by a court of law.
And he was also put in a solitary cell was for security reasons after he had his nose slashed by a fellow inmate.
The businessman, who made his fortune on the back of the controversial post-Soviet privatization of state assets with a one-time leading independent oil company Yukos, was convicted in June 2005 almost two years after his arrest in October 2003.
