Rights Activists Ask Prosecutor General to React to Vasilyeva Interview
MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Leading Russian human rights activists have asked the Prosecutor General's Office to probe the information on the sentence handed out in the Khodorkovsky case stated by Moscow Khamovnichesky Court press officer Natalya Vasilyeva in her interview.
On Tuesday, Vasilyeva said in an interview with Gazeta.ru that Judge Viktor Danilkin, who tried the Khodorkovsky case, was pressured when he imposed the sentence on Khodorkovsky.
The letter to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika was signed by Lyudmila Alekseyeva (chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group), Lev Ponomaryov (leader of the movement For Human Rights), Oleg Orlov (head of the center memorial), Alexander Verkhovsky (director of the Sova Center), and Valentin Gefter (head of the Human Rights Institute).
"The human rights activists are asking the Prosecutor General's Office to probe other information provided by Natalya Vasilyeva on the basis of Articles 140-145 of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure and Articles 354 and 375 of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure," the movement For Human Rights said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
The human rights activists are asking the prosecutor general to open a criminal case and file a motion with the Moscow City Court requesting a reversal of the sentence imposed on Khodorkovsky if the information provided by Vasilyeva is confirmed.
The human rights activists are also asking the prosecutor general to respond to their letter in writing.
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