My Fellow Prisoners

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

When he was arrested at gunpoint in 2003, Khodorkovsky became Russia’s most famous political prisoner. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges, he was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years, despite the fact that the new charges contradicted the earlier ones.

While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and is a tribute to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, tells the story of lives destroyed by bureaucratic criminality. It is a passionate call to recognize a human tragedy.

MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY