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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.
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Russian electoral commission head “honoured” to be on “Magnitskiy list”
Ekho Moscow
[Presenter] Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov believes it is an honour to be on the so-called Magnitskiy list. He said this in a live broadcast on the Dozhd TV channel yesterday [18 October]. He also commented on the case of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital foundation [Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow in November 2009].
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Russia: Charges against Magnitskiy case doctors see mixed response
Medical officers Larisa Litvinova and Dmitriy Kratov from the Butyrka pre-trial detention centre have been charged with the manslaughter of Hermitage Capital fund lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy, the privately-owned Interfax news agency reported on 12 August. They are said to have been negligent in providing care to Magnitskiy before his transfer to the Matrosskaya Tishina remand centre, where he later died.
Litvinova and Kratov were among those identified by rights activists as being complicit in Magnitskiy’s death. The Russian rights activists, who were involved in the independent probe, have not responded with a great deal of enthusiasm, expressing concern that charges against Litvinova and Kratov will become something of a smoke screen.
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