Weekly Column
12/10/12 -- Cracking Down on Those Who Crack Down
More than four years ago, a Russian attorney named Sergei Magnitsky selflessly exposed a brazen plot by senior Russian officials to embezzle some $230 million and was subsequently jailed on fabricated charges. As confirmed by the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights, Magnitsky was mercilessly beaten and denied medical care while imprisoned over the next year, eventually dying in police custody of untreated pancreatic disease.
That’s why, on December 6, the Senate passed the so-called Magnitsky bill, legislation designed to hold Russian officials like these to account when they blatantly and systematically abuse human rights and the rule of law.
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