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Magnitsky Beaten To Death, Says New Report
Yesterday Hermitage Capital Foundation released a report into the death of the company’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, in pre-trial detention on November 16 2009. The 75-page document, which makes for indispensable reading and which can be downloaded here, provides an independent investigation into the death of the auditor who had uncovered a $320 million tax fraud perpetrated by a group of interior ministry officials.
It has been insistently maintained by the authorities that it was acute pancreatitis which killed the 37-year-old. Meanwhile, Hermitage has maintained, since the lawyer’s death, that the victim did not receive the medical attention which was required for that condition and gallstones, following eight months in deplorable prison conditions. One of the principal findings of the new report is that Magnitsky was beaten to death with rubber batons, which is attested to by ten officials from Matrosskaya Tishina Detention Center.
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After Russian Death, Inquiry Doors Open and Shut
The New York Times
by Ellen Barry
It was more than a year ago when six members of an obscure oversight panel filed into Butyrskaya Prison to look into the death of a prisoner. They were hardly an intimidating bunch: retired women in hats, mostly, scribbling their observations in notebooks, regarded by the prison staff as a minor irritant, like fleas.
In a country whose law enforcement structures wield enormous power, it is easy enough to ignore civilian watchdog groups. But this day was different. When the doctors were led in and told to take a seat, the panel’s leader, a veteran human rights activist named Valery V. Borshchev, felt something unfamiliar in the air.
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