U.S. Prods Russia Over Magnitsky’s Death
The U.S. government marked the second anniversary of the prison death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on Wednesday by urging the Russian government to hold accountable those officials involved in his death.
“Despite widely publicized credible evidence of criminal conduct in Magnitsky’s case, Russian authorities have failed to bring to justice those responsible,” U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in an e-mailed statement.
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Conservatives rally to McFaul’s defens
Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) approval of Mike McFaul’s nomination to become U.S. ambassador to Russia was delayed on Tuesday by GOP senators, but today several Republicans are coming to McFaul’s aid.
A group of former GOP national security officials wrote to SFRC leaders John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) today to express their support for the McFaul nomination, which is now facing objections from one SFRC member now and with multiple other GOP senators ready to follow suit, who will make their concerns known if and when McFaul is voted out of committee. In fact, the entire SFRC business meeting was cancelled on Tuesday amid the confusion. It was rescheduled for Nov. 29, when McFaul’s nomination will finally be put before the panel.
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Honoring the Memory of Sergei Magnitsky
Today, we mourn the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old Russian lawyer who died a terrible death two years ago in pretrial detention after exposing a multimillion-dollar fraud against Russian taxpayers. Jailed on fabricated charges after alleging that officers of Russia’s Interior Ministry took part in a $230 million tax fraud against his client, Hermitage Capital Management, Magnitsky was essentially murdered in jail after being denied medical treatment despite repeated pleas for help.
His death, caused by the gross negligence of his jailers and those in the Ministry of Interior responsible for putting him in jail in the first place, was no mistake, and should serve as a call to action: Russian officials must take real steps to change the system that enables human rights abuses and hold accountable those who commit them.
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Russia Ignores Magnitsky Anniversary
Supporters of the late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky are marking the two-year anniversary of his death on Wednesday with events around the world — with the notable exception of Russia.
“In Russia, the only official thing that is going on is the continued cover-up by officials,” a spokesman for Magnitsky’s firm, Hermitage Capital, told The Moscow Times.
By contrast, the U.S. Helsinki Commission in Washington is hosting the performance of a play, “One Hour Eighteen,” depicting the last moments before Magnitsky died in custody in 2009 while awaiting trial on widely criticized fraud charges.
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Second anniversary of Magnitsky death to be marked abroad
A series of events to mark the second anniversary of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death at a Moscow detention center, will be held in the United States and Europe, the Hermitage Capital’s press service has reported.
In memory of Sergei Magnitsky’s heroic resistance to corruption and bureaucratic tyranny, politicians, rights campaigners and cultural figures will hold a series of important events in the capitals of the United States, Britain and Germany, a Hermitage Capital spokesman told Interfax.
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Russian prosecutor’s libel claim against dead lawyer’s colleague rejected
Interfax
The Meshchanskiy district court of Moscow has turned down the claim by an employee of the Prosecutor’s Office, Andrey Pechegin. He asked for a decision to order Jamison Firestone – a colleague of a lawyer of Hermitage Capital investment fund, Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in remand prison – to retract assertions, according to which the claimant with his actions paralysed the investigation of the case of the theft of R5.4bn from the budget of the Russian Federation.
According to an Interfax correspondent, the court read out only the declarative part of the ruling and therefore the reasons it was guided by will become known later.
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London play honours lawyer who exposed Russian fraud
A play about the last moments of an anti-corruption lawyer who challenged Moscow will be performed for the first time outside Russia.
One Hour Eighteen details the killing of Sergei Magnitsky, who challenged the authorities over a £140 million racket. The father of two was working for investment fund Hermitage Capital when he uncovered the biggest tax fraud in Russian history and pointed the finger at senior officials, police and politicians. But he was accused of fraud himself, imprisoned without trial and tortured. In 2009, a group of men beat him to death in his cell.
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Russian rights activist criticizes scope of Magnitskiy investigation
Two years on from the death of the Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre, human rights activists say that there has been no full investigation of the tragedy.
“Something was done: criminal proceedings were instituted over Magnitskiy’s death. Some people face charges as part of these proceedings; they are the doctors, and that is where the problem lies,” Kirill Kabanov, head of the National Anticorruption Committee and a member of the presidential council for human rights [Council for Promoting the Development of the Institutions of Civil Society and Human Rights], told Interfax on Tuesday [15 November].
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William Browder speaks to Lithuanian TV about the Magnitsky case
Lyrtas.lt
During a trip to Lithuiania to meet with politicians and journalists, Hermitage Capital CEO, William Browder took time to speak to Lithuanian TV channel about the Sergei Magitsky case.
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- Sergei Magnitsky
- Why was Sergei Magnitsky arrested?
- Sergei Magnitsky’s torture and death in prison
- President’s investigation sabotaged and going nowhere
- The corrupt officers attempt to arrest 8 lawyers
- Past crimes committed by the same corrupt officers
- Petitions requesting a real investigation into Magnitsky's death
- Worldwide reaction, calls to punish those responsible for corruption and murder
- Complaints against Lt.Col. Kuznetsov
- Complaints against Major Karpov
- Cover up
- Press about Magnitsky
- Bloggers about Magnitsky
- Corrupt officers:
- Sign petition
- Citizen investigator
- Join Justice for Magnitsky group on Facebook
- Contact us
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