http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnzEEpV1-Ms
This youtube video link is to a news broadcast showing Alexanyan's video plea from the French news cite France 24 . It includes the French presenter detailing the background of the case, shots of him in prison where he can be heard to be saying at 00.46 into the film he says "this is torture, legalized torture. Do you understand?" It also includes scenes from his appeal to the Supreme Court.

http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/20350/video
Russia Today, 31st January 2008, Former Yukos chief refuses prison food ‘Former oligarch Mikhail Khordorkovsky is on hunger strike in jail. He says it's in support of Vasily Aleksanian, a former colleague who is also detained and dying of AIDS. The two former Yukos Oil executives were jailed in 2005 for fraud and tax-evasion.’

http://russiatoday.ru/news/news/19762/video
Russia Today , January 17, 2008, 0:45 Jailed Yukos official may die of AIDS ‘ Vasily Aleksanyan, the former vice president of the now defunct Russian oil company YUKOS, is reportedly suffering from AIDS.’