Kasparov’s Intervention at Khodorkovsky Trial
From the Associated Press:
When the judge ordered a recess, Kasparov confronted prosecutor Gyulchekhra Ibragimova as she walked past him on her way out.
During the brief and tense exchange, Ibragimova told Kasparov she respected him but added he should have been playing chess rather than wasting his time in court.
“You are an amateur” in the courtroom, she told him.
A smiling Kasparov accused the prosecution of seeking “to replace the force of law with the law of force,” and suggested she and other prosecutors were “selling the honor of your profession” by pursuing the case against Khodorkovsky.