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Russian activist urges UK to publish human rights blacklist

Ekho Moscow

Britain should publish the list of people barred from entering the country because of alleged abuse of human rights, executive director of the movement For Human Rights Lev Ponomarev said on the air of Ekho Moskvy radio.

“If it is a state security department [as received] initiative, it will not be public. It is important in this situation that the list be published. Otherwise there is not much point,” Ponomarev said.

In his opinion, the special list should include “all the people who handled the case of the Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in a pre-trial detention centre [in Moscow in 2009]”. “The judges who regularly bring in rulings on administrative detentions in Moscow should also be included there. This will create a big public response, as these are, after all, trials that are completely made to order,” Ponomarev said.