Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Sergei Magnitsky, the death that shakes the Kremlin

Le Nouvel Observateur

(Translation from Original French text)

While Russian police recently raided the headquarters of BP in Moscow that Putin seems to have decided to become president of the country, here is the article I published last week in the “Nouvel Observateur” on d ‘a case that caused a stir in Russia.

It was a Muscovite like millions of others. Yet his death – heroic – will perhaps change the course of relations between Russia and the world. Sergei Magnitsky was a modest jurist who, unfortunately for him, discovered the huge embezzlement organized by a group of leading Russian officials. To silence him, he was thrown into prison, where for a year, he was tortured and denied care. He did not give. Despite excruciating pain, he refused to withdraw his testimony against the top brass. And November 16, 2009, it was left to die alone in a filthy cell.