Supporting Organizations

43 organizations and 23 prominent individuals dedicated to human rights in Russia have publicly declared Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev political prisoners.

Organizations

• All-Russian Civil Rights Congress
• All Russian Movement For Human Rights (Lev Ponomarev, Director)
• Andrei Sakharov Foundation (Elena Bonner, Chairman)
• Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center (Yuri Samodurov)
• Central Coordination Council of the Democratic Union (Valeria Novodvorskaya, Chairman)
• Chita Human Rights Center
• “Civil Assistance” committee to refugees (Svetlana Gannushkina)
• Common Action Initiative (Russia)
• International Helsinki Federation (Lyudmila M. Alexeyeva)
• Andrei Sakharov Foundation (Elena Bonner)
• All-Russia Movement ‘For Human Rights’ (Lev A. Ponomarev)
• Memorial Human Rights Centre (O.P. Orlov)
• International Assembly for Human Rights Protection (M.G. Arutyunov)
• Public Committee “For Civil Rights” (A.V. Babushkin)
• P. Bashkirov, human rights advocate
• ‘Ecology and Human Rights’ Coalition (E.I. Chorny)
• Civic Assistance Committee (S.A. Gannushkina)
• ‘Forum of Migrants Organizations’ International Movement (L.I. Grafova)
• Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre (Yuri V. Samodurov)
• Movement against Violence (Sergei Sorokin)
• Omsk Regional Human Rights Centre “Real Law” (Yu.Yu. Shadrin)
• L.V. Vakhnina, human rights advocate
• Committee for the Protection of Freedom of Conscience (G.P. Yakunin)
• Confederation of Political Prisoners of the Czech Republic
• Ecology and Human Rights Coalition (Ernst Cherny, Director)
• “For Civil Rights” Foundation (Andrei Babushkin)
• Glasnost Defense Foundation (Alexei Simonov)
• Group of Human Rights of Minorities of St. Petersburg Union of Scientists (Alexandr Vinnikov)
• Human Rights Institute (Valentin Gefter, Director)
• International Foundation “Democracy” (Aleksandr Yakovlev, President)
• International Society for Human Rights (Germany)
• Memorial human rights organization (Sergey Kovalev, Chairman)Memorial International Society (Arseny Roginsky)
• Moscow Helsinki Group (Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Director)
• Public Committee in Defense of Freedom of Conscience (Rev. Gleb Yakunin)
• Sovest (“Conscience”) rights group
• St. Petersburg All-Russian Movement For Human Rights (Sergei Khakhaev)
• St. Petersburg Anti-Nazi Centre (Yulii Rybakov)
• St. Petersburg “Civil Action” Organization (Arkadii Melikhov)
• St. Petersburg “Democratic Front” Organization (Igor Jordan)
• St. Petersburg Human Rights Organization Citizens’ Watch (Yurii Vdovin)
• St. Petersburg Research and Information Centre Memorial (Dmitry Machinsky, Irina Flige, Tatiana Kosinova)
• Transbaikal Committee on Public and Political Support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky)

Individuals

• Yuri Afanasyev, President of the Russian State Humanitarian University
• Liya Akhedzhakova, honored actor
• Oleg Basilashvili, honored actor, State Prize winner
• Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet political prisoner, co-founder of Committee 2008: Free Choice
• Mikhail Gasparov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Prize Winner
• Vitaly Ginzburg, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nobel Prize winner
• Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Soviet political prisoner, poet
• Daniil Granin, writer
• Vladimir Kara-Murza, journalist
• Garry Kasparov, United Civil Front, world chess champion
• Sergey Kovalev, human rights activist and former political prisoner
• Eduard Kuznetsov, Soviet political prisoner
• Grigory Pasko, journalist, prisoner of conscience
• Leonid Romankov, Acting State Counselor of St. Petersburg
• Vladimir Ryzhkov, Republican Party leader, State Duma deputy
• Yuri Ryzhov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Boris Strugatsky, writer
• Aleksandr Tkachenko, Director of the Russian PEN Center
• Lyudmila Ulitskaya, writer
• Eduard Uspensky, writer
• Graham Watson, President of the European Parliament’s ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) Group
• Alexei Yablokov, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences; leader of “Green Russia” party, Center for Russian Environmental Policy
• Sergei Yursky, honored actor, recipient of the Prize of the President of Russia