Responding to recent press speculation regarding the transfer of Vasily Aleksanyan to a civilian hospital, Drew Holiner, Mr Aleksanyan's representative at the European Court of Human Rights issued the following statement:

 
We are able to confirm that my client, Vasily Aleksanyan, was transferred to a civilian hospital on Friday. However, Vasily's lawyers were not informed of his new location. Indeed, Vasily's lawyers were only able to locate him after conducting their own personal search of civilian hospitals across Moscow on Saturday. Still after six days, Vasily's legal team have not been allowed to meet with him and we continue to seek access. Consequently, we cannot confirm what treatment Vasily is receiving or whether the conditions in the hospital are satisfactory. However, we are able to confirm that the hospital where Vasily currently resides is not a specialist AIDS clinic. Therefore, his transfer was not compliant with the decision of the ECHR that Vasily must be transferred to 'a hospital specialised in the treatment of AIDS and concomitant diseases'. Moreover, the fact that Vasily has yet to be granted access to either his lawyers or independent doctors is a further violation of the European Convention of Human Rights.