21/02/2008 - Yelena Lvova, Vasily Aleksanyan’s lawyer
Who on earth could attack him there? He has a 24-hour guard. What good is a chain in those circumstances?! If he is chained to his bed it will be harder to move him off the ward, is that it? I cannot understand the logic. Now the chain is a thing of the past. It seems as though the prosecutor has been making visits to the hospital — he did not go to see Aleksanyan, it’s true man from — and checked on the conditions in which our client is being held. Since then the fetters have been removed from Vasily Aleksanyan. Yesterday we found him in a rather more cheerful condition: for the last two weeks it has been an outrageous business. He could reach no further than his bedside cupboard. http://www.khodorkovsky.info/aleksanyan/136152.html
