Moscow Sakharov Center Commemorates Sergei Magnitsky’s 41^st Birthday

April 8, 2013

Today, 8 April at 7 pm the Moscow Sakharov Cen­ter will com­mem­o­rate the 41^st birth­day of late whis­tle-blow­ing lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky with a cul­tur­al event devot­ed to his hero­ic fight for jus­tice and the strength of his spir­it in the face of phys­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal repres­sion in Russ­ian police custody. 

The evening will include a recital of poems, a per­for­mance of clas­si­cal music and songs, and a pre­sen­ta­tion of Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s diaries.

The event is open to the public.

The address of the Sakharov Cen­ter is: build­ing 6, 57 Zemlyanoi Val (near­est metro sta­tions: Kurskaya, Tagan­skaya or Chkalovskaya).

Four days before Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s death in cus­tody, he wrote his last state­ment to the court, which the judge did not allow him to sub­mit. In his writ­ten state­ment, he said:

“And now it will be a year that I am being held in prison as hostage in the inter­ests of per­sons wish­ing that the true per­pe­tra­tors of the theft of 5.4 bil­lion rubles from the bud­get will nev­er be determined…My place­ment in cus­tody has noth­ing to do with the pur­pose of crim­i­nal jus­tice, and…is a pun­ish­ment that I am being sub­ject­ed sole­ly because I defend­ed the inter­ests of my client, and ulti­mate­ly, of the state.” 

“This state­ment by Sergei Mag­nit­sky has become his lega­cy to all those who stand up to cor­rup­tion and injus­tice no mat­ter how hard it is,” said a Her­mitage Cap­i­tal representative.

Moscow Sakharov Cen­ter announce­ment of Mag­nit­sky Mem­o­ry Event:
http://www.sakharov-center.ru/arrangements/?id=2192

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