it would not be magnitsky found another reason.upsets us, everything connected with this case is extremely politicized and we did not do it. do you think people don't die in american prisons, or what? full and why are we going to spin it now, do you know how many people american law enforcement agencies around the world collect, violating the jurisdiction of these countries and drag them to prison? in their own and there they judge it's normal. why alone does the party consider itself entitled to extend its jurisdiction to the whole world? this undermines a fundamental principle of international law, antan. we are not closed without a trial and the investigation keeps people there, as in the middle ages they walked in shackles in chains and legalized torture. while carrying out investigations, these people are now pointing out to us some of our shortcomings. they probably exist and we ourselves must respond to them. we are doing this, talking about a reboot, but they themselves are exacerbating the situation , absolutely not provok

if there were no magnitsky , they would find another reason.upsets us everything that is extremely connected with this case. politicized. and we didn't do it. do you think people don't die in american prisons, or what? full and why are we going to spin it all now. do you know how many people american law enforcement agencies around the world collect, violating the jurisdiction of these countries and drag them to prison? in their own and there they judge it's normal. why does one side consider itself entitled to extend its jurisdiction to the whole world? it undermines the fundamental principles of international law, antan. we don't close without trial and investigations of people are kept there, as in the middle ages they walk in shackles in chains legalized torture. while carrying out investigations, these people are now pointing out to us some of our shortcomings. they probably exist and we ourselves must respond to them. we are doing this, talking about a reboot, but they themselves are aggravating the situation without any provocation on ou

and this veryjudge who also sentenced magnitsky has also sentenced kara—murza. to deter anyone from speaking out against it. a 25—year prison sentence is unprecedented. why do you think the kremlin sees kara—murza as a threat? because he has consistently spoken out about russian human rights abuses for years now. he was a friend of an opposition leader who was assassinated, and we still don't know exactly who did that, and they see people like him as a threat, particularly during this war because vladimir putin has used this war to crack down in russia and to stifle all opposition sentiments. you cannot even stand with a blank piece of paper anymore by yourself on the street in a silent protest. this is to really deter everyone else, to intimidate everyone. it is going back to soviet methods and vladimir putin did used to be a kgb agent. i want to play you a clip of maria litvinenko speaking to the bbc earlier. she is the wife of alexander litvinenko, who was murdered in london in 2006. because he is is 25 years, it means he is a very special hostage. if a valua

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surrogate magnitsky, the namesake for the global back i its key justice campaign vladimir lawyer has warned of threats against him. that is how it works in russia right? they go after people and sometimes it relates to what they are investigating, bu sometimes it's not sometimes, it's a kind of thin governments, unjust governments, just used to throw people in jail to threaten them to intimidate them. >> there are literally n rules. journalists are open targets lawyers are open targets there are no rules of course, we know about the wall street journal reporter who was just arrested as, yo mentioned, but - vladimir current mrsa, who has been his lawyer for many years he had to flee the country i was with him in washington earlier this week, on capito hill, as he was describing wha has happened to him. i should also point out, really, ominous connection you mentioned my lawyer, serge magnitsky, arrested, torture for 300 days and killed in a russian prison the person who was in charge o the prison where he wa tortured is now in charge of the person where vladimi kara-murza is being kep

and that magnitsky sanctions, as they're called, has been an improvement...s, you mean, against those deemed to be responsible for human rights abuses. absolutely. it has been used in russia, it's been used by the americans and others against chinese officials. it's been used against iranian officials. it's been used by the british government against some kleptocrats, some of those who are believed on reasonable grounds to be guilty of human rights abuses. i see that as an advance, but i see... do you? yes, i do. isn't the problem here that the magnitsky sanctions are, in a sense, imposed by a cosy club of western—orientated nations, whereas there's a whole other raft of nations across the world? and, of course, we see it embodied in the reaction to the ukraine war... china, russia, iran, the brics countries, they're all actually deeply sceptical about your talk of sanctions, about a western—imposed view of the world and the way it should work. well, so be it. the argument for these human rights sanctions is, of course, that it's not purely western. it's not

the chairman of the -- [indiscernible] -- the judge in this case, he was included into the magnitskyct and everybody knows that vladimir himself is one of the main initiators and promoters of magnitsky act. so it's very difficult to imagine more conflict of interest. but our process against this had been declined by other judges. so i think this case had nothing to do with justice. it's just a political revenge against vladimir and his political activity. it's claimed just now he's the most prominent political opposition leader in russia and he's a political prisoner, there's no doubt. david: you saw him most recently of anyone. can you tell us about his current condition? vadim: you mean about his health? david: yes. vadim: it's the main problem. because as evgenia has told you already, he was poisoned twice. in may of 2015 and in february of 2017. and we think because of his political activity, the poisoning was caused by his political activity against putin's regime. as a consequence of these two poisonings, there is a very strong disease, it's a very difficult, very strong diseas

he's been on the magnitsky list for years.can i ask you again because the kremlin imposed these instruments of fear as you call them as warnings, really for other people, including journalists. i mean, just look at evan gersh, covic. and now you're seeing other journalists leaving the country. are you worried that at least in the short term, they may be effective in suppressing opposition and the truth. they're doing everything to suppress position and to suppress the truth in the country since last february, over at 200,000 media resources , online media resources have been blocked in the country. all social media platforms have been blocked in the country. the remaining three independent media were blocked talking about the echo of moscow radio station tv does in no vegas yetta. um but despite all this, russia placed second on the but the number of vpn services installed last year around the world. which means that there is a high demand for independent information in the country. people are trying to get to independent info

the judge himself was under magnitsky sanctions for human rights violations.ed-door trial. put this sentence into context for us. >> of course vladimir, who i have known many years, is a courageous person. he went back to russia, he is a british citizen and legal u.s. resident. his family is here in the u.s. he went back to russia to fight for a russia that could be free. this sentence passed down by a sham court was not a trial. this was a sentencing event. he was charged with high treason for what? for calling what the putin government is doing, a brutal war in ukraine. it is likely after the sentence he will be transferred to a harsh penal colony. this is the highest so-called crime the russian government could charge him with. the judge being sanctioned himself for human rights violations under the magnitsky act, cannot be called impartial in this case. stephanie: his wife reacted at an event hosted by the washington post today. she said this sentence is the high recognition of the effectiveness of vladimir's work. this sentence shows they are so afraid of

of the main initiators and promoters of magnitsky act.ne morere conflict of interest -- >> yeah. >> -- in comparison to that situation. but our -- have been declined by the judge. so t i felt that this case a had nothing to do with justice. it's just political revenge against vladimir, all his political activities. we could claim that just now he's the most prominent political opposition leader in russia, and he's a political prisoner, there's no doubt. >> you, you saw him most recently of anyone. can youe. tell us about his current condition? >> you mean about his health? >> yes. >> yeah. that's the main problem because as yvgeni has told you already, he was twice poisoned in may of '15 and in february of '17. and caused, we think -- [inaudible] his political activity, poisoned because of his political activity againstce putin's regi. as consequence of these two poisons -- [inaudible] it's a very, very difficult -- and included into the least of the diseases which are in contradiction with the ability to depart to the prison. but it's --

the judge himself was under magnitsky sanctions for human rights violations.l. put this sentence into context for us. alina: well, of course, vladimir, whom i have known for many years, is an incredibly courageous person. he went back to russia. he is a british citizen and a legal u.s. resident. his family is here in the united states. he went back to russia to fight for his country, to fight for a russia that could be free. and this sentence passed down by a sham court, this was not a trial. this was a sentencing event. he was charged with high treason. for what? for basically calling what the putin government is doing for what it is, which is a brutal war in ukraine. and it's very, very likely that, after the sentence, he will be transferred to a very, very harsh penal colony. this is the highest so-called crime that the russian government could charge him. and the judge, of course, being sanctioned himself for human rights violations under the global magnitsky act, cannot be called an impartial judge in this case, by any stretch of the word. stephanie: his

similar the mechanism of sanctions against those who imprisoned him, as was done in the case of magnitskys case there are many courageous people who resist putin's regime by all civil means, but in fact the majority of russians simply do not care if the war does not affect their lives personally, mainly people who avoid mobilization, they are not ideologically opposed to the war as such a resister or mobilization as such they simply do not want to die we ukrainians talk to such good russians and inside the country should we force them to communicate with us or just stop any dialogue with those who live in russia because there are many of our relatives there, i personally have three members of my family still living in russia and i simply stopped communicating with them we also remember the times when congresses were published of the nazi regime and this collective shame will haunt the entire german society for a long time to come forever time to bring the putin regime to justice is very important and necessary they must be punished for the sake of the future of russia society a fatal mist

because when we don't give back, the surrender begins with the magnitsky case, by the way, we therebyuys. she escalates aggression. we will endure this we will stand in strategic equipment. and you will water us and beat us. and the truth is, there is an objective circumstance here. we are the daughter, we are already saying that timida should be a professional psychiatrist with good clinical experience at the level. well, at least the boss department, because here she was bored, american, uh, american ambassador, how would it be in russian, so it could be preny, she simply did not understand words too long too difficult, very rattle. it was necessary to make a difference in the ball and that's it. and that's it. i would understand correctly. and maybe even start to do something in the performance of their duties. by the way, now the support for your words about with whom and how sergei viktorovich is said is just pavel zarubina addresses this question. today your deputy said that we are actually in the hot phase of the us war and at the same time today. here, that the ukrainian nazis

, myself and his wife after he was arrested, we went to different countries that have passed the magnitskyct, which freezes the assets and bans that users of human rights leaders. vladimir was essential in getting this law passed. we went to them and said, you need to sanction the perpetrators, his persecutors essentially. and canada sanctioned them, the united states sanctioned them, but britain, where he has citizenship, has not sanctioned them, so britain is essentially doing nothing for their own citizen while other countries where he does not have any connection, are doing all sorts of things. it is remarkable how passive the british government has been in the kara-murza case so far. nicole: that was bill browder talkative as earlier. poland, slovakia and hungary say they are banning the import and transit of green from ukraine, to protect their own agricultural sectors. this after local farmers complained of green coming from the war-torn country being sold below market price. with the eu wanting to help kyiv access the world's markets, brussels might have to intervene. it is causing

he started doing that in 2009 after sergei magnitsky died in prison, and after that he was looking at personal sanctions for russian people involved in that case. since then we know how much this has evolved. it seems that russian officials have not forgotten. it is also a tiny detail but tells you a lot. the judge who was reading the verdict today was exactly the judge that did the sanctions because of the work of vladimir kara-murza. most of the western countries, he would not be allowed to be on the case in the first place, but in russia, he was the main judge reading the verdict. christian: really interesting guy, kara-murza. he went to america to recover after being poisoned by the russian secret service. everyone else is trying to leave the country, all the local opponents are leaving, but he goes back in probably knowing what he will face. incredible bravery what he has done. >> it is incredible bravery. like you said, he twicsurvived harsh poisoning. he himself, his family believed this was the work of russian security services. the poison in itself was similar to what had hap

bill, head of magnitsky, _ some trade potential here.going to see is this will drag on and it's going to drag on and drag on. and the intention is for everybody in america and other countries to get more and more upset about it. the intention is for evan to look more and more gaunt. the intention is to plug at the heartstrings of american voters so that we eventually give them the most valuable thing that would —— they are asking for. we won't know for a while. one complicating factor is that paul whelan, another american hostage who's done nothing wrong, who's been in jail now between four and five years, he's first in line to be released in any kind of hostage swap. he should've been released before brittney griner, so that complicates the extent who gets swapped out. it's an ugly, very difficult situation in which putin pretty much holds all the cards here because we don't take hostages reciprocally. it's not like we're going to go and grab a russia today journalist and dip them in super max and agree a trade. we have to do it asymmet

murza compiled and actively lobbied for the adoption of the magnitsky list, he criticized the russianrities at the nato parliamentary assembly in lisbon and before the helsinki commission of the us congress in march last year , karamurza also took a personal part in drafting sanctions against russia and even received the highest honor of eating the coffin mccain in his life crap less than a mountain. murza managed to spoil russia, i suspect. what kind of work has been done by the state department, he has dumped so many things for him that if they are dried crackers, it will be enough just for the entire term of imprisonment. dual citizenship in addition to russia, he is a british citizen and has a residence permit in the united states before his arrest. he was registered in moscow while living in an american state. virginia, as you know, if a russian liberal does not have dual citizenship, and he can also be asked for positionalists at the hellhole. on this week, a meeting of the sixes took place, usa in japan, a three-day meeting of the foreign ministers of the g7 countries was held

also, he and his supporters suspect it was those international sanctions that he lobbied for, the magnitskyvisa bans and asset freezes on some russian officials, which sparked anger in the kremlin. what has happened today has been a reminder of the danger that activists, politicians, opposition figures, putting themselves in, in opposition to the kremlin. it's not surprising that most of the leading russian opposition figures have fled the country, are under arrest, or are already in prison. president biden has condemned the killing of four people at a 16th birthday party in alabama this weekend as outrageous and unacceptable. 28 people were injured in the attack in dadeville, several critically. police haven't released details about who carried out the shooting or why. gun crime in the us, always high, is now on the rise — in 2019 there were a17 mass shootings, where four or more people were killed or injured. but since 2020 this has increased to more than 600 each year, that's an average of two per day. so far this year there have been at least 161 mass shootings. our north america corres

because when we don't give back, magnitsky starts doing it , by the way, we thereby show that the guyse will stand in strategic equipment. and you will water us and beat us. ah, yes, there is an objective circumstance here. we still think that we are talking to normal people. that's about the bidens, we laugh, what we laugh about about the biden, when i i already say that in the staff of mead there should be a professional psychiatrist with good clinical experience at the level. well , at least the head of the department, because here she was bored, the american uh, the american ambassador, how will it fight? so maybe she just didn't understand the words too long too hard to get away with the rattle. i had to shake it in front of my nose. she would be happy with a lot of experience comrade biden, also with a lot of experience. yes, there is a big difference, that's all. and that's it. i would understand correctly. and maybe even start to do something in the performance of their duties. by the way, now support your words about with whom and how they say. sergeevich just pavel zarubina a

like the magnitsky act which has now been adopted by some 35 or more countries internationally to crack down on those individuals within a dictatorship regime who have benefited from the violations of human rights. how has mr. vladimir kara-murza paid for this offense of speaking out on behalf of democracy and freedom? he's the one who's twice been poisoned by the putin regime. on two occasions. and they fumbled it twice. now they've got a third chance to kill him. and it may be that unless the state department acts quickly, mr. president, the putin regime may finally get their wish and see the obituary of vladimir kara-murza. his life is in danger now because of his previous poisonings, both of which he recovered from. he has suffered already from polly neuropathy. after a year in prison, he's lost 40 pounds. he's lost feeling in both of his feet now and is losing the feeling in one of his arms. that's the situation he finds himself in this week where he was sentenced to a 25-year prison term simply for speaking out on behalf of freedom. even under russian law, a statutory scheme that

through the global magnitsky human rights accountability act, president biden is authorized to impose sanctions on any foreign person that is responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture or other gross violations of internationally recognized human rights against any individual. no action has been taken by this administration, mr. speaker. sadly. president biden should lead on this issue instead of allowing enes kanter freedom to be persecuted by turkiye. all we're asking for is a meeting of mr. freedom and president biden or any member of the state department. high level individual. so he can express his concerns. the president needs, again, to meet with mr. freedom and stand up for what's right. because that's what enes does on a daily basis. he's being persecuted in turkiye. he lives in fear but he's a fearless guy. and in my opinion he's a hero. so i appreciate my good friend, my good friend, candace -- excuse me. my good friend, burgess owens, a great man, he's done so much for the people of the state of utah i'm proud to call him my friend. thank you, god bless, i yield back