Vasily Aleksanyan, former Executive Vice President of Yukos, is dying from HIV AIDS in a Russian jail cell, deprived of life-saving treatment despite repeated injunctions of the European Court of Human Rights.

Russian authorities are allowing Vasily Aleksanyan, former Executive Vice President of the Russian oil company, Yukos, to die from HIV/AIDS in a Russian prison without access to life-saving treatment; the Russian government has ignored repeated injunctions from the European Court of Human Rights to immediately transfer him from prison to a specialized civilian clinic for urgent medical treatment. Ignoring the ECHR rulings, international and Russian law, Russian authorities have further extended his pre-trial detention until March 2008.

Born in Moscow, Russia, 15 December 1971
Graduated from Moscow State University, 1993
Graduated from Harvard Law School, 1996. Recognised as 'Best Foreign Student.'

Employment

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton LLP (USA), Moscow, 1992-1994
Head of legal department (Investments), SUN Group, 1995-1996
Head of legal department, Yukos Oil Company, December 1996-2003
Russian Lawyer of the Year, Career magazine, 2001
Private legal practice, Lex International, Moscow, 2003-2006
(Acted as defence counsel for M. Khodorkovsky, P. Lebedev and V. Shakhnovsky, 2003-2005)
Acting Vice President, Yukos Oil Company, from 1 April 2006
Held in Federal Penitentiary Service remand prison no.1 ('Matrosskaya Tishina') from 6 April 2006

For more information - echr.aleksanyan@googlemail.com