WNYC The Leonard Lopate Show: Underreported. The Death of Sergey Magnitsky.

December 11, 2009

In Novem­ber, a 37-year-old tax lawyer named Sergei Mag­nit­sky died in a Russ­ian jail cell. Before he passed away, Mag­nit­sky draft­ed a series of let­ters and peti­tions describ­ing the squalid con­di­tions in Russia’s pris­ons. Now, those doc­u­ments have leaked and have cre­at­ed an unusu­al firestorm of crit­i­cism in a coun­try where mil­lions once per­ished in the Sovi­et Gulag. We’ll speak with Wash­ing­ton Post for­eign cor­re­spon­dent Philip P. Pan, who just returned from Rus­sia and has writ­ten about the case. You can read his arti­cle about Mag­nit­sky’s let­ters here.

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