Benjamin L. Cardin: “Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.”

we are going to do something about this.

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.