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After his arrest, Okhotin has said, he encountered a pervasive pattern of corruption and misconduct by the Russian authorities—both the customs agents who first took him into custody and the investigators examining his case—including repeated solicitations for bribes...
Extensive meetings with his two Russian attorneys in those weeks did not produce elaborate defense strategies. Instead, Okhotin said, they revolved around “trying to remember all the details accurately” regarding that day in March...
...twist to the letter-writing campaign which Okhotin and Sonnenberg had initiated earlier this summer—including letters from congressional representatives and Harvard administrators, directed at officials in the U.S. and Russian governments—the lawyers suggested that Steiner write a letter to the chief judge in Okhotin’s case, vouching for the character of the defendant who studied human rights law under him at Harvard...
Steiner said the letter, translated into Russian, attested to Okhotin’s “quality of mind” and “quality of person...
Back in Cambridge, HDS spokesperson Wendy McDowell said HDS Dean William A. Graham and HDS Assistant Dean for Student Life Belva B. Jordan were still waiting for any official Russian response to the letters of appeal that they sent in July...