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Human right activist supports British ban on Russians on Magnitsky List
Russian veteran human rights defender, Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) head Lyudmila Alexeyeva has supported the British ban on 60 Russians on the Magnitsky List from entering the UK.”
Certainly, I would like people involved in the Magnitsky case to be punished here, in Russia. That would have displayed our wish to become a democracy, put an end to violations of human rights and have fair trials,” Alexeyeva told Interfax on Tuesday.
“Yet this is not happening. Let them be punished at least on the international level,” the human rights activist said.
“The British decision is very painful. For our rich love for visiting the UK,” Alexeyeva said.
The Home Office barred 60 Russians on the Magnitsky List from entering the UK, The Daily Telegraph said.It said the barring of the Russians was contained in a response in April to a written inquiry from Conservative MP Dominic Raab if any of the Russians on the Magnitsky List visited the UK last year.
The Home Office said it was aware of the people on the Magnitsky List and had taken measures to deny them British visas.
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Lawyers for Magnitsky family accuse investigators of illegal actions – Hermitage Capital
The lawyers for the relatives of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital, who died in a Moscow detention facility in 2009, have complained to the administration of three law enforcement agencies about an investigator who provided materials relating to the Magnitsky criminal case to his colleagues in the Interior Ministry, the press service for the investment company said.
“The lawyer for Magnitsky’s mother has filed a statement stating a conflict of interest in the investigation into the lawyer’s and the creation by the administration of the investigative body of a situation threatening the safety of the victims and the witnesses in the case,” the press service said in a report obtained by Interfax on Monday.
The statement has been sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigations Committee, and the Investigations Department of the Interior Ministry.
“The statement says that the Investigations Committee has provided unlimited access to the materials of the case involving Magnitsky’s death to the Interior Ministry officials whom the victim stated as accomplices in his torture and killing, thus violating the victim’s rights,” the press release.
The lawyers said such actions create “conditions for a threat to the life and safety of the victims and other persons who have provided investigators with evidence on the role in the crime against Magnitsky of Interior Ministry officials who are interested in hiding this information and evading responsibility.”
Magnitsky, who was accused of tax evasion, died at the Moscow detention facility Matrosskaya Tishina on November 16, 2009. Acute cardiac arrest was officially named as the cause of his death. Magnitsky’s defense lawyers claimed that he had complained of health problems and requested a thorough medical examination.
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