Benjamin L. Cardin: “The law asks the State Department to also present us with a budget for implementing this report each year”

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.

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.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

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