In the USA USA Start tightening sanctions against the Russian Federation

The congressmen presented a document that introduces personal sanctions for human rights violations under the Magnitsky Law.

The United States Congress introduced a resolution urging the country’s administration to impose sanctions against Russian officials involved in human rights violations in the Russian Federation. This was reported by the press service of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.

The resolution was presented to the US legislature by the chairman of this committee, Democratic Party member Eliot Engel, and high-committee Republican Michael McCall. It is proposed to impose sanctions, in particular, within the framework of the Magnitsky Law.

Furthermore, the document condemns the “practice of politically motivated arrests”. The authors of the resolution also called for “the immediate release of all so-called political prisoners in Russia.”

The Magnitsky Law was passed by the United States Congress and signed by President Barack Obama in December 2012. The document provides for the application of sanctions against various Russian officials. Among them, employees of law enforcement agencies involved in the death in November 2009 at the Moscow pre-trial detention center, the maritime silence of Hermitage Capital’s lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

Recall, a year ago, the United States Treasury Department included on the list of sanctions under the “Magnitsky Act” the Chechen special operations detachment Terek and five citizens of the Russian Federation.

In Russia, they declared that this was contrary to the principles of international law and promised to take retaliatory measures.

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