Magnitsky’s Mother and Widow Along with 54 Famous Politicians, Human Rights Activists and Victims Call for European Magnitsky Sanctions at UK Book Launch of Magnitsky Book Tomorrow

November 4, 2013

The wid­ow and moth­er of late whis­tle-blow­ing lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky along with 54 famous politi­cians, human rights activists and vic­tims of human rights abus­es are call­ing on politi­cians to imple­ment Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions in Europe.
In the open­ing word to the new book, “Why Europe Needs a Mag­nit­sky Law?”, Magnitsky’s moth­er Natalia urges Euro­pean politi­cians to show courage, like her son had done despite being tor­tured in cus­tody, and to enact the Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions across the Euro­pean Union, sim­i­lar to the law adopt­ed last year in the Unit­ed States:
“My son’s life was short… He chose not to com­pro­mise him­self and paid for that with his life… I do not believe that the law adopt­ed in the US is anti-Russ­ian, but that it intro­duces tar­get­ed restric­tions for cer­tain peo­ple fail­ing to respect human rights and that this is fair, even if insuf­fi­cient, pun­ish­ment for them. And I hope the coun­tries of the Euro­pean Union will find the courage to fol­low the US.”
The Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions com­prise visa bans and asset freezes on indi­vid­u­als respon­si­ble for Mr Magnitsky’s ill-treat­ment and killing, the cov­er up of his death in cus­tody, and oth­er human rights vio­la­tions. The sanc­tions have been imposed in the US under the “Sergei Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act” which were approved with an over­whelm­ing bi-par­ti­san major­i­ty in the U.S. Con­gress and signed by Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma into law on 14 Decem­ber 2012. Read more

Swedish Police Have Removed the Russian Arrest Warrant Against Mr Browder from their Databases

November 1, 2013

The Swedish police have informed William Brow­der, the leader of the glob­al jus­tice cam­paign for Sergei Mag­nit­sky, that they have removed the Russ­ian arrest war­rant in rela­tion to him from Swedish police databases.
Fol­low­ing Mr Browder’s suc­cess­ful cam­paign to impose finan­cial and visa sanc­tions on the Russ­ian offi­cials who killed Sergei Mag­nit­sky in the Unit­ed States, the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment retal­i­at­ed by launch­ing polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings against him in Rus­sia, which end­ed in the con­vic­tion of Mr Brow­der in absen­tia for nine years along with Mr Browder’s mur­dered lawyer, Sergei Mag­nit­sky, posthu­mous­ly in the first ever posthu­mous tri­al in Russ­ian his­to­ry. Read more

Magnitsky’s Mother Sues Russian Prosecutor Who Organized the Cover-Up of Her Son’s Death

October 29, 2013

Nataliya Mag­nit­skaya, the moth­er of the late whis­tle-blow­ing lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky, has sued Russ­ian Deputy Pros­e­cu­tor Vic­tor Grin for his role in exon­er­at­ing all Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cials who false­ly arrest­ed and tor­tured her son in cus­tody. The law­suit will be heard on Wednes­day, 30 Octo­ber 2013, at 11 am at the Moscow City Court (http://www.mos-gorsud.ru/sudz/apellechionnaya_instance/ua/?pn=13).
“The con­clu­sion by Deputy Gen­er­al Pros­e­cu­tor of Rus­sia …unques­tion­ably vio­lates the rights of Mr Magnitsky’s moth­er ..and is in deep con­tra­dic­tion with the con­clu­sions by mem­bers of the President’s Coun­cil on Human Rights,” says the com­plaint filed by Mrs Magnitskaya’s lawyer. Read more

Putin Promotes Notorious Judge Who Presided Over the Posthumous Trial of Sergei Magnitsky

October 25, 2013

Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin has pro­mot­ed judge Igor Alisov, who presided over the first tri­al of a dead man in the his­to­ry of Rus­sia. The tri­al end­ed with the posthu­mous con­vic­tion of Sergei Mag­nit­sky in July this year.

Pres­i­dent Putin’s decree was pub­lished on the offi­cial Krem­lin web­site show­ing that judge Igor Alisov has been upgrad­ed from the Tver­skoi dis­trict court to the Moscow City Court, which is a sig­nif­i­cant pro­mo­tion (http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?3584338) Read more

U.K. Court Throws Out Russian Police Officer’s Libel Suit Against Bill Browder in the Most Egregious Case of Libel Tourism in British History

October 14, 2013

Today, the UK High Court threw out the libel suit filed by unem­ployed Russ­ian ex-police offi­cer Pavel Kar­pov against William Brow­der, Her­mitage Cap­i­tal and Jami­son Fire­stone, as an abuse of the court process. 

“I have con­clud­ed that these pro­ceed­ings should be struck out as abuse of the process and/or under the inher­ent juris­dic­tion,” said pre­sid­ing Judge Simon in the judge­ment read out today in the UK High Court. Read more

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