http://observers.france24.com/en/category/tags/yukos La vue par taxonomie avec une profondeur de 0. en http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080130-putin-other-prisoner <p> Thirty-five year old Vasiliy Aleksanyan is a former executive for the Russian oil giant Yukos, which the Russian government has been persecuting for the past few years. Aleksanyan also served as acting Vice President for 6 days before he was arrested. Like his previous boss the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, he was accused of tax evasion and money laundering. For the past two years he has been awaiting trial in prison. Aleksanyan is dying of AIDS, but the authorities refuse to allow him to be hospitalised. He says that the prosecution offered to free him if he testified against former heads of Yukos. Well-known antagonists of Putin's Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are already serving prison sentences. </p> <p> Despite a decision by the European Court of Human Rights to hospitalise Vasiliy Aleksanyan in November last year, the Russian Supreme Court declared on 22 January that he would remain in prison. According to his lawyer, Aleksanyan could soon be facing a death sentence if he doesn't receive aid. <br /> </p> http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080130-putin-other-prisoner#comments video Mikhail Khodorkovsky Platon Lebedev Russia Vladimir Putin Yukos Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:07:32 +0100 Julien 6909 at http://observers.france24.com