Posts Tagged ‘Rapporteur’

25
June 2013

Draft PACE Report Slams Russia Over Magnitsky Case

Radio Free Europe

A draft report from the Council of Europe accuses Russia of allowing corrupt officials to “plunder” the state while “brutally silencing” their critics.

Swiss deputy Andreas Gross, rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the Sergei Magnitsky case, presented the report to the council’s Human Rights and Legal Affairs Committee in Strasbourg on June 25.

PACE is expected to consider the 41-page document, titled “Refusing Impunity for the Killers of Sergei Magnitsky,” for approval in September.

Magntisky died in pretrial detention in 2009 after uncovering a massive tax fraud scheme by police and government officials.

“It’s a report about a person who discovered injustice — you can even say a criminal act — because he discovered that not only property had been stolen but, within the tax authorities, $230 million was stolen from the Russian state,” Gross told a news conference in Strasbourg.

The report says PACE is “appalled that Magnitsky died in pretrial detention and none of the persons responsible for his death has yet been held to account.”

It claims “high-level” Russian state officials orchestrated a “cover-up.”

The document says Magnitsky died “because he refused to give in to the pressure that corrupt midlevel officials had put on him in order to get away with their crimes.”

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25
July 2011

UN Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez, discusses the Sergei Magnitsky case

RNW

The State We’re In, Featuring an interview with UN Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, where he also discusses the Sergei Magnitsky case from 32:40

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04
January 2011

On Human Rights in the World and the EU’s Policy on the Matter

New Europe

Human rights serve as the guiding principle in the European Union’s (EU’s) external action. Hardly are there other state-actors in the world that would place such an emphasis on the spread and protection of human rights abroad.

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