Magnitsky in a sentence

Mr Johnson added that Moscow should 'concentrate on bringing those responsible for the murder of £Magnitsky to justice', referring to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

Some of the money that Roldugin’s companies received from the Laundromat originated in a massive Russian tax fraud exposed by Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in jail after revealing it.

Compared with its predecessors, the Trump administration has been tough on Russia, with its consistent pursuit of the post-Crimea sanctions, the application of the Magnitsky Act, and its opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Kibis was an investigator at the Russian Interior Ministry in 2012, at the time of the posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky.

On Monday, shortly before meeting with Magnitsky’s widow, Dominic Raab imposed sanctions including asset freezes and travel restrictions on 49 individuals and organisations who stand accused of serious human rights violations in recent years.

Rogers urged the British government to impose immediate targeted Magnitsky sanctions against Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam, as well as other Hong Kong and Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in the former British colony.

The Russian Embassy in the UK has, perhaps unsurprisingly, already claimed that all the questions surrounding Sergei Magnitsky’s death were answered long ago, and the threats of reciprocal action from the Kremlin came shortly afterwards.

Browder has mounted a campaign to bring Magnitsky’s killers to justice and pushed through legislation in the United States imposing travel and financial sanctions on top Russian officials.

Called the Global Magnitsky Act, the law authorizes the US Government to sanction by freezing assets or ban entry into the US, persons it sees as human rights offenders.

Global Magnitsky Act, the law authorizes the US Government to sanction by freezing assets or ban entry into the US, persons it sees as human rights offenders,” Biazon wrote on Twitter.

In an interview with NBC News, Veselnitskaya stated her June trip involved lobbying against the Magnitsky Act and that she never had any dirt to share on Clinton.

Mr Magnitsky was a Russian national and an auditor who had worked for Mr Browder.

Proponents of the Magnitsky Act.

SVT's investigation also revealed that part of the Swedbank flows were related to the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, a corruption specialist who in 2007 died after 11 months' incarceration by Russian authorities.

The European court ruling was based on a complaint originally filed by Magnitsky himself a decade ago, and later taken over by his family.

The Magnitsky Act, which applies globally, authorises the US government to sanction those who are seen as human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the US.

The U.S. Congress, however, has made good-faith efforts to censure China, including bipartisan calls to impose Global Magnitsky Act sanctions on Party leaders.

Economic sanctions akin to the Magnitsky Act may be double edged for the British.

His notes mention “Russian adoption by American families” and Bill Browder, a British citizen who has spearheaded a U.S. sanctions law —known as the Magnitsky Act— that targets Russian officials over human rights abuses.

On July 5, the U.S. State Department announced that Diaz was being sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act for what it called “serious human rights abuse against the people of Nicaragua” during the crackdown by police under his command.