Civil Rights Matter » Russia http://www.civilrightsmatter.com Working for the Common Good Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:38:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sergei Magnitsky Dies in Soviet Prison http://www.civilrightsmatter.com/2009/11/24/sergei-magnitsky-dies-in-soviet-prison/ http://www.civilrightsmatter.com/2009/11/24/sergei-magnitsky-dies-in-soviet-prison/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:23:50 +0000 Sonj http://www.civilrightsmatter.com/?p=39 The Moscow Times
Rights Council Vents Over Magnitsky

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.”



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