Statements of Support (2003-2013) / Leutheusser – Schnarrenberger, Sabine MEP

“The trial lacks rule of law standards and is clearly politically motivated. Since relevant witness testified in favour of Khodorkovsky it was hardly comprehensible how it could come to this verdict. The new verdict was a tough setback for Russia on the way to the rule of law.  The very idea that criminal law is used as an instrument of power is devastating”

Sabine Leutheusser – Schnarrenberger  MEP Germany (Liberal Party), Federal Minister of Justice, December 2010