The editorial is entitled "Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Russia's political prisoner".
A number of the comments refer to the number of people being held without trial in Guantanamo Bay, and rampage that the UK and USA have been on in the last decade or two.
This comment from Geronimo says it all
Oh, right... so Khordokovsky's grotesque asset-stripping of the Ex-Soviet Union under Yeltsin isn't in question, but it's not fair that he has to serve a few years in jail, while his mate Berezovsky is free in London as guest of successive UK governments, despite (allegedly) even more grotesque shenanigans, not definitely excluding his mate Litvinenko's grotesque demise?
And frankly, after the Iraq invasion and many other crimes against humanity, it's a bit rich for the US and UK to be taking the high moral ground against the Russian administration. Especially since their own highly political campaign against Putin is based largely on disinformation and innuendo, rather than anything that would stand up in a court of law in the US or UK, in the unlikely event that the court was entirely free of political influence.
It is possible that Khodorkovsky is a sacrificial lamb, witting or unwitting.
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