Award Winning Play about Magnitsky’s Murder to Open in London Theatre on Anniversary of His Death

October 31, 2012

“ONE HOUR EIGHTEEN MINUTES”

UK the­atre debut of an award-win­ning play about the mur­der of Sergei Magnitsky 

in Russ­ian Cus­tody to start on 13^th Novem­ber 2012

(OPENING NIGHT 16 Novem­ber 2012)

30 Octo­ber 2012 — The British the­atre debut of “One Hour Eigh­teen Min­utes”, an award-win­ning play that merges the­atre, pol­i­tics and human rights cam­paign­ing into a pow­er­ful account of a one-man’s tragedy at the hands of a repres­sive state, will open at the New Dio­ra­ma The­atre in Lon­don on 13^th Novem­ber 2012.  The play depicts the final hours of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, a whis­tle-blow­ing Russ­ian lawyer who uncov­ered mas­sive cor­rup­tion in the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment, tes­ti­fied about it and was killed in cus­tody. Read more

UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Calls on Government to Disclose Names on Visa Bans Lists as a Result of Magnitsky Case

October 18, 2012

Yes­ter­day, the House of Com­mons For­eign Affairs Com­mit­tee rec­om­mend­ed that the British Gov­ern­ment should pub­licly dis­close the names of human rights abusers who have been denied entry into the UK. The new pol­i­cy rec­om­men­da­tion was announced as part of the British Parliament’s review of the For­eign and Com­mon­wealth Office’s approach to Human Rights, which was pub­lished in the For­eign Affairs Com­mit­tee Third Report of Ses­sion 2012 – 13.
(http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmfaff/116/116.pdf)

The For­eign Affairs Com­mit­tee report and their rec­om­men­da­tions fol­lowed the sub­mis­sion of evi­dence from Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al, Fair Tri­als Inter­na­tion­al, Her­mitage Cap­i­tal, Human Rights Watch, REDRESS and oth­ers. Read more

Council of Europe to Conduct International Investigation into the Torture and Murder of Sergei Magnitsky

October 5, 2012

Coun­cil of Europe to Con­duct Inter­na­tion­al Inves­ti­ga­tion into the Tor­ture and Mur­der of Sergei Magnitsky

5 Octo­ber 2012 — Today, the Bureau of the Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly of the Coun­cil of Europe (PACE) approved the appoint­ment of its Legal Affairs and Human Rights Com­mit­tee to con­duct an inter­na­tion­al inves­ti­ga­tion into all of the cir­cum­stances of the death of Sergei Mag­nit­sky in Russ­ian police cus­tody three years ago. The vote passed with 9 in favor and 7 opposed.

The vote took place in Stras­bourg at the Bureau meet­ing of the PACE, which con­sists of nation­al del­e­ga­tion rep­re­sen­ta­tives, par­ty group lead­ers and the chairs of each of the PACE com­mit­tees. The Bureau of the Par­lia­men­tary Assem­bly deter­mines the day-to-day work­ings of PACE. Read more

Moscow Court Reveals Secret FSB File of Operational Activities Against Sergei Magnitsky While he Was in Prison

October 3, 2012

Niko­lai Gorokhov, the lawyer for Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s moth­er, announced in Moscow court that evi­dence has sur­faced of a secret FSB file which indi­cat­ed a series of oper­a­tional activ­i­ties con­duct­ed by the FSB (the Russ­ian secret police) inside the prison while Sergei Mag­nit­sky was held in pre-tri­al deten­tion. The files have been kept con­fi­den­tial and the Mag­nit­sky fam­i­ly lawyer beleieves these activ­i­ties and the files doc­u­ment­ing them could shed light on the cir­cum­stances of his mur­der in police cus­tody and who was behind it. Read more

Magnitsky’s Mother Slams the Government’s Cover-Up in Prosecution of Prison Doctor Kratov

October 2, 2012

Natalia Mag­nit­skaya, the moth­er of the late Russ­ian lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky, today called on the Russ­ian court to accept new evi­dence show­ing the com­plic­i­ty of a large group of Russ­ian law enforce­ment offi­cials in the tor­ture and killing of her son, and to send the case back to prosecutors. 

In her tes­ti­mo­ny at the Tver­skoi Dis­trict Court in Moscow this morn­ing, Mrs. Mag­nit­skaya gave evi­dence that the indict­ment issued by Russ­ian inves­ti­ga­tors against Dmit­ry Kra­tov, a for­mer deputy head of Butyr­ka prison, does not con­tain cer­tain crit­i­cal fac­tu­al and doc­u­men­tary evi­dence link­ing oth­er offi­cials to the crime against her son. Under the Russ­ian crim­i­nal pro­ce­dur­al code, the court is bound by the scope of the indict­ment in issu­ing its sen­tence and this ommi­sion by the pros­e­cu­tors would lead to a dras­ti­cal­ly more lenient sen­tence. Read more

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