March 12, 2008 By James Kimer

U.S. State Dept on Russia’s Human Rights

Yesterday the U.S. State Department released its 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Below is just an excerpt regarding Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others – the complete report can be found here.

Political Prisoners and Detainees Human rights organizations and activists have identified various individuals as political prisoners: Zara Murtazaliyeva, Valentin Danilov, Igor Sutyagin, Mikhail Khodorkovskiy, Platon Lebedev, and Svetlana Bakhmina. All remained imprisoned at the end of the year. Mikhail Trepashkin, previously identified by some observers as a political prisoner, was released this year. (…)