Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sergei Magnitsky Dies in Soviet Prison
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Rights Council Vents Over Magnitsky
The advisory group, created under then-President Vladimir Putin, has enjoyed a more prominent role in Medvedev’s Kremlin, but it is less critical of the government than independent rights groups. |
“One of the presentations mentioned that the acquittal rate in Russian courts is less than 1 percent. The president seemed surprised and promised to look into it,” Oreshkin said.
Read more about Russia’s Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Council headed by Ella Pamfilova, a Presidential candidate in 2000.
Read coverage of the story of the prison death of Sergei Magnitsky in a BBC article
He (Bill Browder) told the BBC that his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, had in effect been “held hostage and they killed their hostage.”
