Alexeyeva asks international community to react to Magnitsky death

Interfax

October 25 – Russian rights campaigners requested assistance during talks with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon in probing Hermitage Capital Foundation lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death at a detention facility.

“I said that if our authorities cannot punish the guilty, let the world community react,” a participant in the meeting, head of Moscow’s Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, told Interfax.

The talks also dealt with problems which Russian civil activists get confronted with, including in organizing public actions.

Russian rights activists complained that it is much easier for them to meet with foreign representatives than with Russian officials, who invite civil activists very rarely.

Alexeyeva earlier told Interfax that although not everything is proper with human rights in the United States, the situation there is better than in Russia.

Magnitsky, 37, died at the Matrosskaya Tishina prison on November 16, 2009. He was being held on charges of tax evasion. His death caused widespread public outcry. The Investigative Committee started an inquiry into his death on charges of “not aiding a patient” and “negligence.” But rights activists claimed that Magnitsky’s death had not been investigated in seriously.

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