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Senate Committee Postpones Vote on Magnitsky Bill

Wall Street Journal

A Senate committee postponed a vote Tuesday that would punish Russian human-rights violators, Dow Jones Newswires reported.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee delayed the vote on the so-called “Magnitsky” bill, named for the lawyer who died in a Russian prison in 2009 after accusing government officials of fraud, on the request of an unspecified committee member.

“There will not be a vote on the Magnitsky bill at today’s business meeting,” said Jodi Seth, a committee aide, confirming the report to Corruption Currents. “We have not yet scheduled the next business meeting, which is when the bill would be brought back up.”