Stuart Millar Technology correspondent
Saturday July 28, 2001
The Guardian

Dmitry Sklyarov is an unlikely cause célèbre, but the Russian computing student has found himself caught up in a worldwide wave of protests against the power of big business.

The quiet, unassuming postgraduate student's name will be chanted and his image paraded during street protests planned for cities across the US and much of Europe this week.

The reason? For two weeks, the 26-year-old Russian has been languishing in a Nevada jail after the FBI arrested him under controversial copyright laws while he was attending a hackers' convention in Las Vegas.

and it gets even more bizarre...