Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Beck, Marieluise MEP

“Coming to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, it is not only that we know that he really has gone a long way from starting and collecting wealth in the 1990ies to a man who does not care about the money anymore, but who really has understood that a prosperous society needs good education, free people, young people who believe in their future and that they have a chance. He’s gone through a long way of being imprisoned and I think that has changed his personality, so he now is the symbol for standing up with a clear conscience against the Kremlin where there is somebody who is the head of this system of suppression”

Marieluise Beck MEP Germany, speaking in an interview as part of the Decade of Injustice video series to mark the 10^th anniversary of Khodorkovsky’s arrest, August 21, 2013