« Integrating Energy Security into NATO | Main | International Law and the New Russia »

Still No Confirmation of Medical Care for Alexanyan

On the 11th day of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's hunger strike, we see more and more contradictory reports that fatally ill prisoner Vasily Alexanyan has been "spirited off" to a new facility to finally receive the medical care he was being denied for so long.

Yet there is a long pattern of lies from the government on this case that we should be used to by now.

According to a recent press release from his lawyers, they still have not been able to confirm that Alexanyan is receiving treatment. In fact, neither his lawyers or family have any idea where he even is after being sent away to a "secret location." Refusal to inform the lawyers about a prisoner's whereabouts and medical treatment is a violation of Russian law - the latest of many illegal actions by the prosecutors.

One blogger has already called these latest developments in the Yukos case "Russia's Guantanamo." An apt characterization indeed.

Posted by Robert Amsterdam on February 8, 2008 8:06 PM |
SHARE THIS ARTICLE:

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.robertamsterdam.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-t.cgi/3676

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Search


About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on February 8, 2008 8:06 PM.

The previous post in this blog was Integrating Energy Security into NATO.

The next post in this blog is International Law and the New Russia.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Subscribe to this blog's feed
[What is this?]
Powered by Movable Type 3.31
Hosted by LivingDot