Below is a translation of an article from Khodorkovsky.ru, dated Jan. 22. It serves as a companion to the Supreme Court transcript of Vasily Alexanyan which we posted earlier.

Supreme Court decides to play god Terminally ill Vasily Alexanyan kept in detention. Today, three judges of the Supreme Court of the RF, having heard the arguments of the defenders of Vasily Alexanyan, the speech of Vasily Alexanyan himself, and a thirty-second appearance by the procurator, emerged from chambers with a decision based on information that had not sounded in court, and which was not known even to the lawyers and the accused.