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UN Launches Investigation Into Russian Lawyer’s Prison Death
The United Nations has launched an investigation into the death of Russian anticorruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky under what have been described as torturous pretrial jail conditions.
According to a statement released by Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisory firm that Magnitsky represented, the UN special rapporteurs on extrajudicial executions, the independence of lawyers and judges, and torture have initiated an “unprecedented investigation” into the circumstances surrounding Magnitsky’s death in late 2009.
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Rights experts to investigate jail death of Russian lawyer
U.N.-appointed human rights experts have agreed to explore the death in pretrial detention of a Moscow lawyer who was arrested after filing accusations of police involvement in a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme, a colleague who has vowed to avenge his death said Thursday.
The decision comes at the request of Redress, a British human rights organization that works on behalf of torture victims. The lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who was outside counsel to the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, died in a Moscow jail in November 2009 in what have been described as torturous conditions. He had been in jail 358 days.
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