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18
December 2012

MEP calls for entry ban on those involved in Russian lawyers’ death

The Parliament

The EU has been urged to impose an entry ban for “all people” incriminated in the death of a Russian anti-corruption lawyer.

Sergei Magnitsky is said to have uncovered what he described as a ‘web of corruption’ involving Russian tax officials.

He is said to have uncovered the theft of more than €152m and, after reporting it to the authorities, he was himself detained on suspicion of aiding tax evasion, and died in custody on 16 November 2009 at the age of 37.

The lawyer’s colleagues insist the case against him was fabricated to make him halt his investigation into a number of high-profile corrupt officials.

Green MEP Werner Schulz, deputy chairman of the EU-Russia parliamentary cooperation committee, has praised the late lawyer for “daring” to speak out against alleged corruption in his country.

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12
December 2012

Parliament expected to back demands for crackdown on human rights violations in Russia

The Parliament

MEPs are this week expected to back a resolution which calls on the Russian authorities to “put an end to impunity” in the country.

Parliament’s non-binding resolution on the next EU-Russia agreement will be voted upon by members in Strasbourg on Thursday.

It contains several references to human rights and the rule of law, and “stresses the need for the Russian authorities to put an end to impunity in the country, as well as to politically motivated persecutions, arrests and detentions”.

The paper also “emphasises the need to cease using repressive measures against the political opposition”.

It seeks to ensure that “full light is shed on the many violations of human rights that have occurred” in Russia.

These, it says, include the imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the deaths of Sergei Magnitsky, Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya, Natalya Estemirova and others.

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