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Telegraph: Russia called to probe police role in Magnitsky death

April 23, 2010

Mr Mag­nit­sky, who rep­re­sented Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, the hedge fund run by Bill Brow­der, died in prison after being held for 358 days with­out trial on tax eva­sion charges.

He had pre­vi­ously tes­ti­fied about the involve­ment of Russ­ian police offi­cers in the alleged theft of $230m (£150m) of tax­payer funds. An inves­ti­ga­tion was launched into his death fol­low­ing pub­lic out­cry, but its focus was on the fail­ure of the On Thurs­day, Lyud­mila Alek­seyeva, the founder of the inde­pen­dent Moscow Helsinki Group, called for an inquiry into the police offi­cers alleged to have brought “the crim­i­nal case against Mr Mag­nit­sky and used tor­ture against him”.

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The Wall Street Journal: Russia Criticized Over Jail Death Probe

April 23, 2010

Two promi­nent Russ­ian human-rights advo­cates Thurs­day accused author­i­ties of drag­ging their feet in the inves­ti­ga­tion of the jail­house death in Novem­ber of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, a lawyer work­ing for a U.S. invest­ment fund.

Valery Bor­shchev, head of an inde­pen­dent advi­sory com­mis­sion legally empow­ered to mon­i­tor human rights in prison, said pros­e­cu­tors and other inves­ti­ga­tors haven’t responded as the law requires to a scathing report on Mr. Magnitsky’s case his panel issued in December.

That report accused inves­ti­ga­tors, judges and jail offi­cials of delib­er­ately sub­ject­ing Mr. Mag­nit­sky to inhu­mane con­di­tions and depriv­ing him of vital med­ical care in an effort to pres­sure him into giv­ing tes­ti­mony that inves­ti­ga­tors sought. He died Nov. 16 at Moscow’s Butyrka prison after suf­fer­ing gall stones.

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The Moscow Times: Activists Say Magnitsky Was Murdered

April 23, 2010

Human rights activists are call­ing on author­i­ties to open a mur­der inquiry into the death of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky, who died in pre­trial deten­tion in November.

Mag­nit­sky died of sys­tem­atic tor­ture and not of neg­li­gence,” Valery Bor­shchyov, of the Moscow Helsinki Group, told reporters Thursday.

The 37-year-old lawyer died in a deten­tion cen­ter on Nov. 16 after offi­cials repeat­edly denied him med­ical treat­ment for ill­nesses that he devel­oped while wait­ing nearly a year for his polit­i­cally tainted tax trial to begin.

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Polit.RU: Людмила Алексеева просит главу СКП возбудить уголовное дело против милиционеров, виновных в смерти Магнитского

April 22, 2010

Председатель Московской Хельсинкской группы Людмила Алексеева обратилась к главе СКП Александру Бастрыкину с просьбой возбудить уголовное дело в отношении должностных лиц российского МВД по фактам незаконного уголовного преследования, применения пыток и убийства в СИЗО 37-летнего юриста британского инвестфонда Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment Сергея Магнитского.

Принимая во внимание всю совокупность фактов, дающих основания полагать, что сотрудниками СК при МВД РФ Сильченко О.Ф. (руководителем следственной группы) и МВД РФ Кузнецовым А.К, Дрогановым, Толчинским и Кречетовым (членами следственной группы), осуществлявшими расследование уголовного дела в отношении Магнитского С.Л., применялись к последнему пытки, то есть по их указанию и с их попустительства ему создавались заведомо невыносимые, причиняющие физическое и нравственное страдание условия содержания в СИЗО (путем постоянного ухудшения условий содержания, оказания давления, отказа в предоставлении необходимой медицинской помощи) в отместку за данные им свидетельские показания против сотрудников милиции Кузнецова А.К. и Карпова П.А. и с целью добиться от него заведомо ложных показаний против самого себя и его клиентов, прошу Вас рамках ст.ст. 140 – 141 УПК РФ рассмотреть вопрос о возбуждении уголовного дела по факту применения пыток, приведших к смерти Сергея Магнитского в отношении следователя СК при МВД РФ Сильченко О.Ф. и сотрудников МВД РФ Кузнецова А.К. Дроганова, Толчинского и Кречетова и осуществить его быстрое и беспристрастное расследование в соответствии с требованиями норм Конвенции и российского законодательства.

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The NY Times: Inquiry Stalled in Death of Russian Lawyer

April 22, 2010

Two human rights cam­paign­ers said on Thurs­day that despite per­sonal inter­ven­tion by Rus­sia’s pres­i­dent, Dmitri A. Medvedev, offi­cials respon­si­ble for the death of a lawyer last year in pre­trial deten­tion are fac­ing no sub­stan­tial punishment.

In Novem­ber, Mr. Medvedev ordered an inquiry into the treat­ment of Sergei L. Mag­nit­sky, a 37-year-old lawyer who died in a prison hos­pi­tal after care­fully doc­u­ment­ing his requests for med­ical care. Amid pub­lic out­rage over the case, Mr. Medvedev dis­missed around 20 prison offi­cials and pros­e­cu­tors opened an inquiry into neg­li­gence and refusal of med­ical care.

But five months have passed and no one has yet been charged with a crime. Lyud­mila M. Alex­eyeva, who sits on Mr. Medvedev’s human rights coun­cil, said she will rec­om­mend the body take con­trol of the case, which she said “is not moving.”

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