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ALDE calls for EU wide visa ban on Russian officials involved in the Sergei Magnitsky case
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament has today launched a procedure inside the European Parliament seeking to establish a common EU list of officials responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky, for the subsequent judicial cover-up and for the on-going and continuing harassment of his mother and widow.
11/04/2012
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament has today launched a procedure inside the European Parliament seeking to establish a common EU list of officials responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky, for the subsequent judicial cover-up and for the on-going and continuing harassment of his mother and widow.
The proposal is to impose and implement an EU-wide visa ban on these officials and to freeze any financial assets they, or their immediate family, may hold inside the European Union, along the lines quietly done, or under consideration, in a number of countries.
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MEP Donskis: “Sooner or later Russia will start thinking about life without Putin”
On Tuesday, a hearing on Russia was held during the Subcommittee on Human Rights meeting. Several representatives of civil society and human rights defenders from Russia attended the Subcommittee meeting in order to share information about elections, and problems relating to violations of the freedom of association, discrimination and the rule of law.
The European Parliament has adopted more than one resolution concerning Russia which stressed the importance of Russia`s efforts to promote human rights protection, which is important for the development of the EU-Russia relations. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that after the Russian Duma elections and before the upcoming presidential elections the situation in Russia is not improving, as the long-standing problems are not addressed. Furthermore, worrying cases, like that of Sergei Magnitski`s, are not moving forward, and facts brought to light by human rights defenders still frequently remind about the methods used by Russia for the fight against “inconvenient” citizens.
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MEPs: protests show Putin has lost respect
EU Observer
Prominent MEPs from Russia’s big neighbours have said the mass anti-Putin protests in Moscow are a wake-up call for EU foreign policy.
Looking ahead to the EU-Russia summit in Brussels on Thursday (15 December), Elmar Brok, a senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right CDU party, said EU officials should urge the Kremlin to hold proper presidential elections in March.
“It should be made clear they have to look for real elections – to give a fair chance to opposition politicians, to let them run and to make sure they have the means to run, and to let the international community monitor the campaign.”
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Short note on the extraordinary delegation meeting regarding the case of Sergey Magnitsky
On the 26/5/11the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee EU-Russia invited Mr Browder of the Hermitage Capitel Management and Mr Wiegand, Director for Russia from the EEAS, to update the European Parliament on developments regarding the Magnitsky case. A short report of the meeting.
Sergey Magnitsky died in pre-trial last year after having discovered a large scale corruption scandal. Magnitsky, who believed in justice and who did not want to give on pressure from officials that were serving their own pocket, did not survive the bitter fight he started against the Russian bureaucratic system. He was a lawyer for the Hermitage. His colleagues were shocked and in despair when they heard about his death.
Mr. Browder, the director of Hermitage had his heart broken at the moment he got the news of his death. Since that day he has been fighting for the justice Magnitsky was fighting for.
Mr Wiegand set out the attempts by the EU to get clarification on the case. The EEAS welcomed the resolution by the EP of December last year. In the meantime the case is mentioned at high level meetings with Russian officials. Also Medvedev´s promise to support an official investigation in the case is considered as a positive step. Until no official outcome of the investigations has been published, the EEAS will refrain from taking measures against Russian officials as was laid out in the resolution.
Mr. Browder also expressed its full satisfaction with the resolution adopted by the EP. However he is very concerned about promotions and awards recently given to officials that were involved in the case and outlined a number of indications of the Russian authorities to denial any crimes convicted by authority officials in relation to the death of Sergey Magnitsky.
Mr. Browder asked specifically for actions taken against the 60 officials as was proposed in the EP resolution, he is also of the opinion that neither the independent, nor the official investigation will lead to conviction of officials. Mr. Browder considers this case also as a clear example of grave shortcomings of the rule of law in the Russian Federation and believes that there are many more cases like Magnitsky where innocent civilians have become victim of activities of corruption and crimes by authority officials. unshaven girls займ срочно без отказов и проверок https://zp-pdl.com/online-payday-loans-cash-advances.php https://zp-pdl.com/get-a-next-business-day-payday-loan.php hairy woman
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European Parliamentarians Raise Questions in Magnitsky Case
Question for written answer
to the Commission
Rule 117
Werner Schulz (Verts/ALE) and Heidi Hautala (Verts/ALE)
Subject: Sanctions for Russian officials involved in the case of Sergey Magnitsky
Restrictive and targeted measures, such as those proposed by the European Parliament in its resolution of 16 December 2010 with regard to the case of Sergey Magnitsky, have recently been the subject of much debate and were touched upon in discussions on the need to review EU Neighbourhood policy, in particular in the light of the sanctions imposed on Belarus by the Council on 31 January 2011 and the need to curtail the severe human rights violations currently taking place in Southern Europe.
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European Parliament members: Russia must permit free assembly, elections
Two members of the European Parliament, visiting Moscow to meet with human rights organizations, called on Russia on Monday to permit citizens to assemble freely without harassment and to guarantee free and fair elections for parliament later this year and for president next year.
“If the elections are not free,” said Kristiina Ojuland, a member of the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, “it’s clear the next Parliament would have no legitimacy.”
Ojuland and Heidi Hautula, head of the parliament’s human rights committee, praised Russia for promising an independent investigation into the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former billionaire, but said those officials responsible for the death in pretrial detention of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky must be tried and punished.
“We will see very soon if something is accomplished,” Hautula said, “or if it’s just another nice gesture by the president without too many consequences.”
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Pro-Kremlin party leader calls MEP’s suggestions in Khodorkovsky’s case attempt to put pressure on Russia
Suggestions made by some European Parliament members in the case of Russian ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are an attempt to put pressure on Russia, Russia’s ruling party leader Boris Gryzlov said.
Members of the European Parliament led by Estonian Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe deputy Kristiina Ojuland moved to impose economic sanctions and travel restrictions on Russian officials involved in ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s trial and conviction.
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The European Parliament Considers Sanctions against Russia for Khodorkovsky
Moskovsky Komsomolets
The idea of sanctions was suggested by a group of parliamentarians headed by Kristina Ojuland of Estonia. “The European Union openly supported Belarussian opposition. Why not the democratic opposition in Russia as well?” said Heidi Hautala of Finland, chair-in-office of the European Parliament’s subcommittee on human rights. “We cannot permit double standards.” President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek called Khodorkovsky’s verdict a “symbol of systemic problems with supremacy of the law, legal nihilism, and human rights in Russia.”
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