Magnitsky’s Mother Asks Russian Press to Avoid Becoming an Accomplice in the Posthumous Trial of Her Son

March 27, 2013

Ahead of anoth­er day in the his­toric posthu­mous tri­al of Sergei Mag­nit­sky in Moscow, Mag­nit­sky’s moth­er has addressed the Russ­ian press ask­ing them to refrain from repeat­ing false accu­sa­tions that the state is mak­ing against her dead son. She called the tri­al today a “blas­phe­my” and “des­e­cra­tion of the mem­o­ry of her son” organ­ised in response to the Mag­nit­sky Law passed in the Unit­ed States. Read more

Sergei Magnitsky’s Widow Appeals to The Conscience of All Those Participating in the Trial Against Her Dead Husband to Cease Their Actions

March 11, 2013

The wid­ow of Sergei Mag­n­tisky has appealed to the con­science of all those par­tic­i­pat­ing in the tri­al against her dead hus­band, to cease their actions and end this unprece­dent­ed spectacle.
“Because of the posthu­mous tri­al against my dead hus­band, Sergei Mag­nit­sky, by the Tver­skoi Court in Moscow, I state that I view this process as defil­ing his mem­o­ry,” said Natalia Zhariko­va in today’s state­ment to court. Read more

President Putin Directs Government Attack on Bill Browder to Stop Magnitsky Sanctions Being Enacted in Europe

March 5, 2013

In a fur­ther esca­la­tion of the per­se­cu­tion of Her­mitage exec­u­tives and lawyers by the Russ­ian author­i­ties, this morn­ing the Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry announced new spu­ri­ous alle­ga­tions tar­get­ing William Brow­der, CEO of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment. The retal­ia­to­ry cam­paign of state slan­der, posthu­mous pros­e­cu­tion and intim­i­da­tion gained momen­tum in Rus­sia after Pres­i­dent Putin’s per­son­al attack on Mr Brow­der two months ago at a nation­al press con­fer­ence. This morn­ing, the Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry made fur­ther accu­sa­tion against Mr. Brow­der alleg­ing “theft” of Gazprom shares by com­pa­nies affil­i­at­ed with the Her­mitage Fund ten years ago and accus­ing Bill Brow­der of attempt­ing to inter­fere with Gazprom’s strate­gic direc­tion through requests for finan­cial infor­ma­tion and for cam­paign­ing for a seat on the board of the com­pa­ny between 2001 and 2004. The Russ­ian Inte­ri­or Min­istry also threat­ened to use inter­na­tion­al search and arrest war­rants in their “inves­ti­ga­tion” into Brow­der. Read more

Sergei Magnitsky’s Relatives Challenge the State Authority to Appoint Defence Lawyer to Magnitsky in his Posthumous Proceedings

March 3, 2013

Ahead of tomorrow’s closed hear­ing at Tver­skoi Court in Moscow, Sergei Mag­nit­sky’s rel­a­tives have writ­ten a com­plaint to the 5^th Cham­bers of the Moscow Bar chal­leng­ing the legal­i­ty of the Bar pro­vid­ing a lawyer to ‘defend’ Sergei Mag­nit­sky in the posthu­mous tri­al that the fam­i­ly is boycotting. 

In their let­ter addressed to the head of 5^th Cham­bers of Moscow Bar Asso­ci­a­tion Sergei Ore­shkin, which received a court instruc­tion to assign a defence lawyer to the deceased, Sergei Magnitsky’s rel­a­tives stat­ed that the Russ­ian law does not allow for tri­als of dead peo­ple and con­se­quent­ly the appoint­ment of a defence lawyer for a dead per­son in such pro­ceed­ings would be ille­gal. They also describe the Russ­ian author­i­ties attempt to pres­sure them to be involved in the posthu­mous pro­ceed­ings against their will as “mon­strous”. Read more

French Lawmakers Call on Russia to Cease “Grim Comedy” of Magnitsky Posthumous Trial Ahead of the 4 March Hearing

March 1, 2013

Ahead of the 4 March hear­ing in Moscow in the first ever posthu­mous tri­al in the his­to­ry of Rus­sia of dead whis­tle-blow­ing lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky, ten French law­mak­ers pub­lished an open let­ter call­ing on the Russ­ian author­i­ties to cease this “grim com­e­dy” echo­ing of “repres­sion” and take steps to bring Mag­nit­sky killers to jus­tice and pro­tect his fam­i­ly from intimidation. 

“Mag­nit­sky killers should not be above the law, and the grim com­e­dy of his posthu­mous tri­al must stop. Sim­i­lar­ly, the ongo­ing harass­ment and suf­fer­ing caused to his moth­er and wid­ow must stop,” said French law­mak­ers. Read more

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