The Kremlin wants to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, which fingers some of its state-approved gangsters, and it’s using desperately needy children as pawns.
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Topic: Magnitsky Act
Involvement of the Russian officials included in the ‘Magnitsky list’ in other politically motivated criminal proceedings in Russia
On 27 April, 2016, a discussion on the case of Sergei Magnitsky, Russian anti-corruption whistle-blower and lawyer who died in custody in Moscow, in 2009, after having exposed a tax fraud of $230 million, took place at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Open Dialog at the Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Awards 2015 to commemorate the brave Russian lawyer
6 years ago, Sergei Magnitsky was dying tortured and beaten to death in a Russian prison. He had been arrested after having uncovered a large-scale corruption scandal, involving high-level Russian officials.
Open Dialog at the Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Awards 2015 to commemorate the brave Russian lawyer
6 years ago, Sergei Magnitsky was dying tortured and beaten to death in a Russian prison. He had been arrested after having uncovered a large-scale corruption scandal, involving high-level Russian officials.
The Open Dialogue Foundation supports the Global Magnitsky Act
17 March 2015 – The Open Dialogue Foundation expresses its full support for the “Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act” (S.284/H.R.624).
MEPs on the case of the so called European “Magnitsky list”
On Monday, 10 November 2014, the group of 23 Members of the European Parliament wrote the letter on the case of the so called European “Magnitsky list”. The list contains names of 32 Russian officials that should be subjected to the EU sanctions due to the involvement in the death of S. Magnitsky
