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Alan Mendoza discusses Magnitsky case with Al Jazeera
Alan Mendoza, Director of the Henry Jackson Society, discusses the recent posthumous conviction of Sergei Magnitsky and the failings of the Russian justice system.
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Russia blacklists 18 Americans in Magnitsky row
A row that began with the death of a lawyer in a Moscow prison is seriously affecting relations between Russia and the US.
A group Russians allegedly involved in a massive fraud and the killling of Sergei Magnitsky have been barred from the US.
Now the Kremlin has responded with its own blacklist.
Al Jazeera’s David Chater reports from Moscow.
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Trial against dead Russian lawyer to proceed
A Russian court has ordered the trial of a dead anti-corruption lawyer to proceed next week, ignoring calls by his family and lawyers to abandon a case they say is absurd and politically motivated.
Moscow’s Tverskoy Court said after a pre-trial hearing on Monday that the hearing on Sergei Magnitsky’s tax fraud case will open on March 11.
Defense lawyers said the 37-year old’s trial will be the first for a dead person in Russia.
“The trial is indeed absurd,” said lawyer Alexander Molokhov after the court rejected his application to defend Magnitsky.
The court had already appointed a legal team to defend Magnitsky after his own lawyers refused to take part in a trial, which his relatives say is politically motivated.
Magnitsky died while in custody in 2009, after he had complained repeatedly of being denied medical treatment. His death has damaged Russia’s image and triggered an ongoing diplomatic row with the United States.
Magnitsky’s mother, Natalya, has said previously that the case is a farce and her lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov likened the proceedings to “dancing on the grave of a dead man”.
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Russia opens trial of dead lawyer Magnitsky
A Russian court has opened the fraud trial against Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison in 2009 after accusing state officials of a multimillion-dollar tax scam.
The posthumous trial on Monday was initially scheduled for last December, but the judge adjourned the hearing after his family’s defence lawyers refused to participate, saying trying a dead man was illegal.
Because no lawyer for the Magnitsky family showed up, the judge ordered the lawyers association to appoint a defense attorney for the next preliminary hearing on February 18.
“Participation in this process is illegal and immoral,” Nikolay Gorokhov said in an interview with Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward.
“Sergei Magnitsky’s mother and I characterise it as dancing on the bones of a dead man because you can not prosecute someone who is dead.”
The whistleblowing lawyer’s family has also refused to participate saying it is politically motivated.
“I think it is inhuman to try a dead man,” Magnitsky’s mother Natalya told Reuters news agency by telephone. “This is not a court case but some kind of farce, and I will not take part in it.”
Magnitsky was 37 when he died after 358 days in jail, during which he said he was denied treatment as his health declined. The Kremlin’s own human rights council aired suspicions he was beaten to death.
Russian authorities said he died of a heart attack, but his former employer, investment fund Hermitage Capital, says he was killed because he was investigating a $230m theft by law enforcement and tax officials through fraudulent tax refunds.
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Underground theatre play on Magnitsky case
“One Hour and 18 Minutes”. M. Ugarov, director: «The man was dying during the hour and eighteen minutes bound hand and foot and lying on the floor, intentionally devoid of any medical care.
Here’s a question. If a person puts on a prosecutor’s uniform, doctor’s white smock or mantle of a judge, does he or she lose the ability to be human? Does he or she leave at least a hint of humaneness inside? In our case, it is occurred that these people by putting a «smock» have fallen out of the humanity.
Those who are guilty in the death of the hero: the investigators, judges, jailers, doctors; will appear on the stage and we will give to each of them a monologue. We will name them by real names. So they are able to come to the theatre and watch at themselves.
They judge the people in the courts but we are also judging them in theatre».
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