Posts Tagged ‘sunday world’

30
November 2011

Human rights activist shows government what she really thinks

Sunday World

Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a human rights activist and one of the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, made this gesture during a news conference dealing with the investigation of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death, in Moscow.

Sergei Magnitsky was arrested after accusing Interior Ministry officials of corruption and died in custody in 2009.

Magnitsky, 37, had accused the Interior Ministry officials of using false tax documents to steal $230 million from the state.

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