21/02/2008 - Arseny Roginsky: 'Chaining a sick man to his bed is excessive cruelty'
The FPS, on the contrary, believe the chain is protecting Vasily Aleksanyan from attack.

21/02/2008 - Ludmila Alexeyeva, chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group
Now they simply do not know what to say in order to justify their actions.

21/02/2008 - Alexander Podrabinek, commentator for Novaya gazeta, spent 5.5 years in a Soviet labour camp for his book “Punitive Medicine” (1980) about the abuse of psychiatry in the USSR
If Aleksanyan faced the threat of attack he would need not to be chained to his bed but, on the contrary, given greater freedom so that he might defend himself or get away.

21/02/2008 - Arseny Roginsky, chairman of the international Memorial society
The explanation offered by an FPS spokesman seems both artificial and hypocritical.

21/02/2008 - Yelena Lvova, Vasily Aleksanyan’s lawyer
Who on earth could attack him there? He has a 24-hour guard.

07/02/2008 - Bernard Kouchner, French minister of Foreign and European Affairs

01/02/2008 - Platon Lebedev, former Vice President of Yukos Oil Co.

01/02/2008 - Grigory Yavlinskiy, Chairman of the Yabloko Party

25/01/2008 - Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe

18/01/2008 - Mikhail Khordorkovsky, former owner of Yukos Oil Co.

18/01/2008 - Amnesty Intenational
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