Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Andrikiene, Laima Liucija MEP

“This Christmas will be his last behind bars, after ten years of injustice, political persecution and imprisonment. We eagerly await his release next August.

Russia badly needs a change of direction. It needs people of the character and calibre of Mikhail Khodorkovsky to take the country forward.”

Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Lithuanian MEP, announcing her amendment to the European Parliament resolution on the state of human rights in the world, which highlighted Khosorkovsky’s imprisonment, December 11, 2013