Over the past week I have been on a brief tour of my home country Canada, for a series of meetings, interviews, and speaking engagements (in fact I will be appearing before the Economic Club of Toronto in just a few short hours). Meanwhile back in Russia, many are aware of the media reports of the dramatic announcement of my client, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, to express his support and solidarity with his former lawyer Vasily Alexanyan by initiating a hunger strike in protest of his treatment. So far, I think that Mikhail has been successful in raising international awareness of the particular cruelty of the Russian prosecutors with regard to the treatment of Alexanyan – which in my opinion is an extraordinarily clear example of exactly how far the Kremlin is willing to go in order to obtain false testimony against my client, and justify the theft of Yukos. Undoubtedly, many of the key officials involved in this criminal affair should begin to consider how they could be held personally liable for this prisoner’s death.