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OSCE Special Rapporteur Calls for Prosecutions in Magnitsky Case

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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Human Rights Rapporteur Coskun Coruz called for the prosecution of Russian officials involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the termination of the posthumous trial against him, and an end to the intimidation of his family.

“As a member of the OSCE, Russia should fulfill its human rights obligations and adhere to the norms and values of the OSCE,” said Corkuz in a statement Monday. “In the harrowing death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Russia’s lawlessness is absolutely not fitting into OSCE’s values. What is particularly shocking is the unprecedented prosecution of a dead man,” he continued.

Coruz’s statement was a response to an appeal from Ludmila Alexeeva, chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, for the OSCE to urge its member state to stop the trial against Magnitsky. “The prosecution of the dead lawyer and the intimidation and harassment of his family by police is a new low and an alarming symptom of the complete degradation of the Russian justice system and the absent rule of law,” she wrote in advance of last week’s meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna.