Benjamin L. Cardin: “Corruption is a cancer. It exists in every country and every society.”

Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

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.