Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Browder, Bill

“I should start out by saying to Mikhail that I apologize for in any way supporting the way in which Putin has victimized him [Khodorkovsky]”

“It is a shocking travesty of justice the way he has been persecuted and re-persecuted in the most obvious and unpleasant way. What I didn’t understand was that it was an attempt for Putin to become the biggest oligarch and to steal from anyone else who had any success, and he did it in the most vociferous way to Mikhail Khodorkovsky”

[Putin is] “completely afraid of anybody who is his enemy. And particularly, his enemies who have been empowered the way that Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been empowered by ten years of Putin”

Bill Browder, speaking in an interview as part of the Decade of Injustice video series to mark the 10th anniversary of Khodorkovsky’s arrest, August 14, 2013