What follows is a statement of support of former Yukos executive Vasily Alexanyan (Alexanian, Aleksanyan), who is being illegally denied urgent medical treatment in exchange for false testimony, signed by some of Russia’s most preeminent human rights and civil society figures, including Lev Ponomarev, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Vladimir Bukovsky, and Garry Kasparov.

Demonstrators stand with posters to support Vasily Alexanian, a former executive at the Yukos oil firm, in central Moscow February 6, 2008. The poster on the right reads, ‘Free Vasily Alexanian’. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA)