EX-LAWYER OF KHODORKOVSKY NOW JAILED HIMSELF VASILY ALEXANYAN PLEADING IN VAIN TO KANGAROO COURT IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Vassily Alexanian's speech at the Supreme Court of Russia: "I ask you to hear me out. Excuse me, your Honour, but I am also not appearing for the first time before the Supreme Court. But how much can one man stand?! Each time I am diagnosed with another serious disease ... In April 2007 investigator said to my defence attorney, Yelena Lvova, who is present here: If he admits his guilt and agrees to our conditions and way of doing things, then we'll let him go. All this time, moreover, they did not just fail to provide any treatment: they did not want to take me for further tests. That was torture. Plain, legalised torture. They say I refused treatment. That's crazy! If you could see me in the court room you would be horrified. My face is marked by the traces of those diseases I now carry within me. In June 2007 my condition began to get much worse. Every day for three weeks I begged them to let me see a doctor. Instead they even limited the pain-killers I was allowed to receive. You understand what they were up to! The devil is in the details. I was tortured with cold and hunger. For a year I slept in my clothes. It was only 2 or 3 degrees Centigrade in my cell. Water ran down the walls. Mould. This, in the 21st century..."

KHODORKOVSKY TRIAL