Vassily Alexanian’s speech at the Supreme Court of Russia: “I ask you to hear me out. Excuse me, your Honour, but I am also not appearing for the first time before the Supreme Court. But how much can one man stand?! Each time I am diagnosed with another serious disease … In April 2007 investigator Khatypov — I name him because some day these people will be called to account — said to my defence attorney, Yelena Lvova, who is present here: If he admits his guilt and agrees to our conditions and way of doing things, then we’ll let him go. All this time, moreover, they did not just fail to provide any treatment: they did not want to take me for further tests. That was torture. Plain, legalised torture. They say I refused treatment. That’s crazy! You are buy prescription drugs without prescription now watching me by video link, evidently in black and white. If you could see me in the court room you would be horrified. My face is marked by the traces of those diseases I now carry within me. They wanted to use me to set a precedent, to create judicial prejudice. I am lawyer myself, I understand Article 90 ["Prejudice"] of the Criminal Procedural Code. They would not then need to prove anything else against Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and other directors [in the Yukos affair]. In June 2007 my condition began to get much worse. Every day for three weeks I begged them to let me see a doctor. Instead they even limited the pain-killers I was allowed to receive. You understand what they were up to! The devil is in the details. I

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