Benjamin L. Cardin: “Thank you, Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Graham, Senator Kennedy, Members of the Committee.”

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

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.

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

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.