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Let's hope that similar "principles of humanity" will be applied to Chelsea Manning, some day.

• pekk 13y ago
  Either don't join the military, or don't violate military law. Because it's not the same as civilian law and never was.
  • rz2k 13y ago
    When you put it that way, the situations begin to sound more parallel than I would have thought. There are rules to being an oligarch, though the payoff is a lot better, and Khodorkovsky should have had a more sophisticated understanding of the terms of the deal.
    • smsm42 13y ago
      There's a bit of a difference between running afoul of the dictator and getting 10 years in jail on a show trial and joining the military and getting jail term for leaking actual secrets you took the oath not to disclose.
  • bonemachine 13y ago
    General humanitarian principles (specifically against torture -- as Ms. Manning was indisputably subjected to) have far greater precedence over any country's military justice code.