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. (…)