Global Voices: Theater Play to “Reconstruct” Lawyer Magnitsky’s Death
February 15, 2010
Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old Russian tax lawyer, died in a Moscow prison on Nov. 16, 2009, after spending nearly a year in pre-trial detention with no access to adequate medical treatment.
The circumstances of his death received extensive coverage both in Russia (RUS) and abroad (ENG). Letters and appeals he wrote from prison were published as well (an English translation of one letter — at RFE/RL; scanned Russian-language originals of typed and handwritten documents — at NewTimes.ru). The Public Oversight Commission for Human Rights Observance in Moscow Detention Centers issued a review of the conditions of Magnitsky’s prison stay (in Russian and in English — at Law and Order in Russia blog).
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