U.S. Senators Call for Alexander Bastrykin and Other Russian Officials to be Subject to Magnitsky Sanctions in US and Europe

November 14, 2013

Two prominent U.S. Senators have called for sanctions to be applied to Russian top law enforcement officials, including Alexander Bastrykin, and other human rights violators under the Magnitsky Act in the US and in Europe.
“Henchmen like Alexander Batrykin who violate the rights of citizens” do not fall within the traditional categories of war criminals, but “the dynamic of administrative sanctions, however, changed with the passage of the Magnitsky Act in the United States,” argue US Senators Wicker and Cardin in their newest appeal “A European Magnitsky Act: Why the Continent Must Unite” revealed on Wednesday at the inter-parliamentary ‘Justice for Sergei Magnitsky’ event held in Brussels on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Magnitsky’s killing in Russian police custody.
“Senior leaders in foreign ministries across the [European] continent have addressed the Magnitsky case on numerous occasions in recent years. None of their entreaties has evoked much more than a yawn from the Kremlin,” say the Senators Cardin and Wicker who sponsored the Magnitsky bill in the U.S. Congress.
The senators have criticized the lack of concrete actions from the EU Council of Ministers in adopting Magnitsky sanctions, in the face of the impunity of Russian officials responsible for the false arrest, torture and killing of 37-year Sergei Magnitsky, and subsequent high level cover-up, and in spite of the three resolutions from the European Parliament in favour of the sanctions.
“An early positive lesson of the Magnitsky Act is that disciplinary action will be noticed and taken seriously by those accustomed to acting with impunity… For sanctions against human rights violators to be most potent, those who are unwelcome in the US should also be unwelcome in Europe,” say Senators Cardin and Wicker.
The appeal to EU Council of Ministers from Senators Cardin and Wicker is published in the new book “Why Europe Needs a Magnitsky Law” edited by a Russian-French journalist Elena Servettaz presented in Brussels yesterday.

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