Amnesty International

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Lawyer Vasilii Georgievich Aleksanian, a former vice-president of the Russian oil company YUKOS, is seriously ill with AIDS because he is being denied adequate medical treatment in detention...

Vasilii Aleksanian has now reportedly been diagnosed with tuberculosis, a cataract to his eyes, a tumour in his kidney, an infection of his lymph nodes, and also heart problems. Under Russian law, a person diagnosed with such serious health problems should not be kept in pre-trial detention...

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